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1. 2 Windows detects new devices and automatically installs the drivers Restart the guest operating system after this process is complete 3 When Windows restarts it detects more new devices 55 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 4 Windows asks for the file Lpt vxd Enter the location C Windows System then click OK 5 Windows detects a PCI standard host bridge and other devices Click OK to dismiss these dialog boxes You do not need to install these drivers 6 Click Finish 7 Install the new version of VMware Tools For details see Installing VMware Tools on page 7 7 8 Shut down Windows and power off the virtual machine 9 Choose File gt Upgrade Virtual Hardware 10 A dialog box cautions you that the operation is irreversible and recommends that you back up the virtual disks before proceeding If you are ready to proceed click Yes 11 A dialog box displays a message describing what is about to happen Click OK to continue 12 Windows detects a PCI Multimedia Audio device Click Cancel 13 Windows detects a PCI Ethernet adapter then the AMD Ethernet adapter Windows automatically installs the driver 14 To install the sound adapter follow the directions in Installing Sound Drivers in Windows 9x and Windows NT Guest Operating Systems on page 245 15 If you have serial ports configured in the virtual machine go to the Windows Device Manager and uninstall all the COM ports listed there 16 Res
2. Make the Virtual Disk Big Enough gt The virtual disk should be large enough to hold the guest operating system and all of the software that you intend to install with room for data and growth e You cannot change the virtual disk s maximum capacity later e You can install additional virtual disks using the Virtual Machine Control Panel For example you need about 500MB of actual free space on the file system containing the virtual disk to install Windows Me and popular applications such as Microsoft Office inside the virtual machine You can set up a single virtual disk to hold these files Or you can split them up installing the operating system on the first virtual disk and using a second virtual disk for applications or data files 71 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual If you do not select this option the virtual disk s files start small and grow as needed but they can never grow larger than the size you set here You can set a size between 2GB and 256GB for a SCSI virtual disk or 128GB for an IDE virtual disk The default is 4GB You may also specify whether you want the virtual disk created as one large file or split into a set of 2GB files 13 Specify the location of the virtual disk s files New Virtual Machine Wizard Specify Disk File Sm Where would you like to store information about this disk ey Disk file One disk file will be created for each 2 GB of vir
3. Netmask Active FTP UDP timeout C Allow any OUI Config port Netbios NBNS timeout 2 E NBNS tetries 3 NBDS timeout 3 a Cancel Help J Change any NAT settings you wish Click the appropriate button to set up or change port forwarding or to specify DNS servers the virtual NAT device should use Linux host Use the NAT configuration file on the host to configure the NAT device This file is etc vmware vmnet8 nat nat conf The configuration file is divided into sections Each section configures a part of the NAT device Text surrounded by square brackets such as host marks the beginning of a section In each section is a configuration parameter that can be set The configuration parameters take the form ip 192 168 27 1 24 For an example of a NAT configuration file see Sample Linux vmnetnat conf File on page 228 The configuration file variables are described below The host Section ip The IP address that the NAT device should use It can optionally be followed by a slash and the number of bits in the subnet 223 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual netmask The subnet mask to use for the NAT DHCP addresses are allocated from this range of addresses cont rgport A port that can be used to access status information about the NAT device The VMnet device to use Windows devices are of the form VMnet lt x gt where lt x gt is the number of the VMnet Linux devices are of the form
4. Note When you are upgrading with the upgrade product the installer checks for the presence of a version 3 license on the computer If it finds no version 3 license it prompts you to enter your version 3 serial number The RPM Upgrade Process If you used the RPM installer to install version 2 or 3 take the following steps to upgrade to version 4 If you are currently using version 3 0 you need to uninstall the RPM package of prebuilt modules that was installed with 3 0 before you uninstall the 3 0 software You do not need to take this step if you are currently using version 2 0 or 3 1 1 If you are running version 2 uninstall it as root by running rpm e VMware If you are running version 3 0 uninstall the prebuilt modules as root then uninstall VMware Workstation by running rpm e VMwareWorkstationKernelModules rpm e VMwareWorkstation If you are running version 3 1 or 3 2 uninstall it as root by running rpm e VMwareWorkstation 2 Install version 4 following the instructions in Installing VMware Workstation 4 on a Linux Host on page 34 Note When you are upgrading with the upgrade product the installer checks for the presence of a version 3 license on the computer If it finds no version 3 license it prompts you to enter your version 3 serial number www vmware comM 46 CHAPTER 3 Upgrading VMware Workstation Using Virtual Machines Created with Version 3 under Version 4 There are broadly speaking three app
5. Add Hardware Wizard Select a Physical Serial Port Which physical drive should this serial port connect to Physical serial port C0M1 Device status Connect at power on 5 Choose the port on the host computer that you want to use for this serial connection By default the device status setting is Connect at power on You may deselect this setting if you wish Click Advanced if you want to configure this serial port to use polled mode This option is of interest primarily to developers who are using debugging tools that communicate over a serial connection For more information see Special Configuration Options for Advanced Users on page 262 6 Click Finish then click OK to close the Virtual Machine Control Panel 7 Power on the virtual machine Using a File on the Host Computer You can set up the virtual serial port in a virtual machine to send its output to a file on the host computer This is useful for example if you want to capture the data a program running in the virtual machine sends to the virtual serial port or if you need a quick way to transfer a file from the guest to the host To install a virtual serial port that connects to a file on the host computer take the following steps 1 Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings 2 Click Add to start the Add Hardware Wizard 3 Select Serial Port then click Next 255 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 256
6. Add Hardware Wizard Serial Port Type What media should this virtual serial port access Serial port Use physical serial port on the host Output to file Output to named pipe 4 Select Output to file then click Next Add Hardware Wizard Choose Serial Port Output File St Which file should this serial port connect to Sy Output file sample txt Browse Device status Connect at power on 5 Browse to the file on the host computer that you want to use to store the output of the virtual serial port By default the device status setting is Connect at power on You may deselect this setting if you wish Click Advanced if you want to configure this serial port to use polled mode This option is of interest primarily to developers who are using debugging tools that communicate over a serial connection For more information see Special Configuration Options for Advanced Users on page 262 6 Click Finish then click OK to close the Virtual Machine Control Panel 7 Power on the virtual machine Connecting an Application on the Host to a Virtual Machine You can set up the virtual serial port in a virtual machine to connect to an application on the host computer This is useful for example if you want to use an application on the host to capture debugging information sent from the virtual machine s serial port www vmware comM To install a direct serial connection between an application on t
7. For more information see Using Suspend and Resume on page 175 Taking and Reverting to a Snapshot VMware Workstation lets you take a snapshot of a virtual machine at any time and revert to that snapshot at any time You can take a snapshot while a virtual machine is powered on powered off or suspended A snapshot preserves the virtual machine just as it was when you took the Snapshot the state of the data on all the virtual machine s disks and whether the virtual machine was powered on powered off or suspended When you revert to a snapshot you discard all changes made to the virtual machine since you took the snapshot Use the Snapshot and Revert buttons on the Workstation toolbar to take a snapshot and revert to it later You can take a new snapshot at any time When you do so you replace the previous Snapshot You can have only one active snapshot at a time For more information including examples of ways you can use the snapshot see Using the Snapshot on page 176 Shutting Down a Virtual Machine As with physical computers you need to shut down your guest operating system before you power off your virtual machine In a Windows guest operating system take these steps 1 Select Shut Down from the Start menu of the guest operating system inside the virtual machine 2 Select Shut Down then click OK 108 nn CHAPTER 5 Running VMware Workstation 3 After the guest operating system shuts down you can turn of
8. activeFTP 1 Allows the source to have any OUI Turn this one if you change the OUI in the MAC address of your virtual machines allowAnyOUIL 1 udp Timeout in seconds 0 no timeout default 60 real value might be up to 100 longer timeout 30 dns This section applies only to Windows Policy to use for DNS forwarding Accepted values include order rotate burst order send one DNS request at a time in order of the name servers rotate send one DNS request at a time rotate through the DNS servers burst send to three servers and wait for the first one to respond policy order Timeout in seconds before retrying DNS request timeout 2 Retries before giving up on DNS request retries 3 Automatically detect the DNS servers not supported in Windows NT autodetect 1 List of DNS servers to use Up to three may be specified nameserver1 208 23 14 2 nameserver2 63 93 12 3 nameserver3 208 23 14 4 netbios This section applies only to Windows Timeout for NBNS queries nbnsTimeout 2 Number of retries for each NBNS query nbnsRetries 3 CHAPTER 9 Networking 229 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Timeout for NBDS queries nbdsTimeout 3 incomingtcp Use these with care anyone can enter into your virtual machine through these FTP both active and passive FTP is always enabled ftp localhost 8887 8887
9. elections local master yes Force a local browser election upon startup We need that otherwise it takes a long time before the windows network is browsable preferred master yes Do not try to resolve SMB names via DNS dns proxy no Shared resources Home directories homes comment Home directories browseable no writable yes Printers printers comment All printers path var lipd browseable no guest ok no writable no printable yes Slash comment Whole filesystem path 7 public no writeable yes printable no 238 o oen 10 Video and Sound CHAPTER 10 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Configuring Video and Sound in VMware Workstation 4 The following sections provide information on configuring the video display and sound for VMware Workstation Setting Screen Color Depth in a Virtual Machine on page 241 e Changing Screen Color Depth on the Host on page 241 e Changing Screen Color Depth in the Virtual Machine on page 241 Changing XFree86 Video Resolutions on a Linux Host on page 243 e Configuration on page 243 e Possible Issues on page 243 Configuring Sound on page 245 e Installing Sound Drivers in Windows 9x and Windows NT Guest Operating Systems on page 245 www vmware comM 240 CHAPTER 10 Video and Sound Setting Screen Color Depth in a Virtual Machine The number of screen colors available in the guest operatin
10. socket options TCP _NODELAY SO _RCVBUF 8192 SO _SNDBUF 8192 232 rare gimn VMware extension to use a different shared memory access key on each Samba server running on this host sysv shm key dev vmnet1l log file etc vmware vmnet1 smb var log smb log level 1 max log size in KB max log size 50 lock directory etc vmware vmnet1 smb var locks smb passwd file etc vmware vmet1 smb private smbpasswd codepage dir usr lib vmware smb codepages dns proxy no Shared resources Home directories homes comment Home directories browseable no writable yes Printers printers coment All printers path var lpd browseable no guest ok no writable no printable yes HostFS comment VMware host filesystem path public no writeable yes printable no Sample smb conf for Bridged Networking The following sample Samba configuration file is for use with bridged networking This configuration file is based on the 2 0 7 version of Samba and assumes that you are using your existing Samba server as provided with your host computer s Linux distribution The configuration file is placed in etc by default This is the main Samba configuration file You should read the smb conf 5 manual page in order to understand the options listed here Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which are not shown in this example Any
11. 192 168 27 128 21 WEB make sure that if you are using named webhosting names point to your host not to guest And if you are forwarding port other than 80 make sure that your server copes with mismatched port number in Host header lynx http localhost 8888 8888 192 168 27 128 80 SSH ssh p 8889 root localhost 8889 192 168 27 128 22 incomingudp UDP port forwarding example 6000 192 168 27 128 6001 230 o oen CHAPTER 9 Networking Using Samba on a Linux Host Using Samba for File Sharing on a Linux Host On a Linux host computer VMware Workstation can automatically install and configure a Samba server to act as a file server for Microsoft Windows guest operating systems You can then use Windows Explorer in the virtual machine to move and copy files between virtual machine and host or between virtual machines on the same network just as you would with files on physical computers that share a network connection The lightly modified Samba server installed by VMware Workstation runs over the VMware Workstation virtual Ethernet and the Samba traffic between different operating systems is isolated from actual local area networks The source code differences for the changes in di format and based on Samba 2 0 6 are available from VMware If you already have Samba configured on your Linux host the recommended approach is to modify that configuration so it includes the IP sub
12. 27 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Installing and Uninstalling VMware Workstation 4 The following sections describe how to install VMware Workstation on your Linux or Windows host system Selecting Your Host System on page 28 Installing VMware Workstation 4 on a Windows Host on page 29 Installing the VMware Workstation Software on page 29 Uninstalling VMware Workstation 4 on a Windows Host on page 33 Installing VMware Workstation 4 on a Linux Host on page 34 Before Installing on a Linux Host on page 34 Installing the VMware Workstation Software on page 35 e Configuring Your Web Browser on page 37 Uninstalling VMware Workstation 4 on a Linux Host on page 37 Selecting Your Host System VMware Workstation is available for both Windows and Linux host computers The installation files for both host platforms are included on the same CD ROM Your serial number allows you to use VMware Workstation only on the host operating system for which you licensed the software If you have a serial number for a Windows host you cannot run the software on a Linux host and vice versa To use VMware Workstation on a different host operating system for example to use it on a Linux host if you have licensed the software for a Windows host purchase a license on the VMware Web site You may also get an evaluation license at no charge for a 30 day evaluation of the software For more information see www vmware com download To install on
13. dev sga is the first generic SCSI device Each entry corresponds to a SCSI device in the order specified in proc scsi scsi from the lowest device ID on the lowest adapter to the highest device ID on the lowest adapter and so on to the highest device ID on the highest adapter Do not enter dev st0 or dev scdo Note When setting up a generic SCSI device in the Virtual Machine Control Panel as described later in this section you specify the device you wish to install in the virtual machine by typing its dev sg entry in the Connection field Requirements Generic SCSI requires version 2 1 36 of the SCSI Generic sg o driver which comes with kernel 2 2 14 and higher Avoiding Concurrent Access to a Generic SCSI Device Under Linux some devices specifically tape drives disk drives and CD ROM drives already have a designated dev entry traditionally st sd and scd respectively When the SCSI Generic driver is installed Linux also identifies these devices with corresponding sg entries in dev in addition to their traditional entries VMware Workstation ensures that multiple programs are not using the same dev sg entry at the same time but cannot always ensure that multiple programs are not using the dev sg and the traditional dev entry at the same time It is important that you do not attempt to use the same device in both host and guest This can cause unexpected behavior and may cause loss or corruption of data P
14. www vmware comM 18 CHAPTER 1 Introduction and System Requirements Virtual Machine Specifications Each virtual machine created with VMware Workstation 4 provides a platform that includes the following devices that your guest operating system can see Processor Same processor as that on host computer Single processor per virtual machine on symmetric multiprocessor systems Chip Set Intel 440BX based motherboard with NS338 SIO chip and 82093AA IOAPIC BIOS PhoenixBlOS 4 0 Release 6 with VESA BIOS Memory Up to 1GB depending on host memory Maximum of 1GB total available for all virtual machines Graphics VGA and SVGA support IDE Drives Up to four devices disks CD ROM or DVD ROM DVD drives can be used to read data DVD ROM discs DVD video is not supported Hard disks can be virtual disks or physical disks IDE virtual disks up to 128GB CD ROM can be a physical device or an ISO image file SCSI Devices Up to seven devices SCSI virtual disks up to 256GB Hard disks can be virtual disks or physical disks Generic SCSI support allows devices to be used without need for drivers in the host operating system Works with scanners CD ROM DVD ROM tape drives and other SCSI devices Mylex BusLogic BT 958 compatible host bus adapter requires add on driver from VMware for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 19 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Floppy Drives Up to two 1 44MB floppy devices Physical drives
15. 224 254 Broadcast address Lease duration for DHCP clients Default lease time 1 Max lease time 5 Make the desired changes then click OK 204 WWW VMware com CHAPTER 9 Networking Choosing the Method for Assigning IP Addresses For virtual machines that you do not expect to keep for long use DHCP and let it allocate an IP address For each host only or NAT network the available IP addresses are split up using the conventions shown in the tables below where lt net gt is the network number assigned to your host only or NAT network VMware Workstation always uses a Class C address for host only and NAT networks Address Use on a Host Only Network eee res Yee O O lt net gt 128 lt net gt 253 DHCP assigned 192 168 0 128 192 168 0 253 DHCP server 192 168 0 254 Address Use on a NAT Network ee aie ee 192 168 0 3 192 168 0 127 192 168 0 128 192 168 0 253 Avoiding IP Packet Leakage in a Host Only Network By design each host only network should be confined to the host machine on which it is set up That is no packets sent by virtual machines on this network should leak out to a physical network attached to the host Packet leakage can occur only if a machine actively forwards packets It is possible for the host machine or any virtual machine running on the host only network to be configured in a way that permits packet leakage Windows Hosts Windows NT syst
16. 3 or a prerelease version of VMware Workstation 4 and install VMware Workstation 4 42 www vmMware com CHAPTER 3 Upgrading VMware Workstation Leave the Existing License in Place The installation steps for your host may require that you run an uninstaller to remove a previous version of VMware Workstation from your machine On a Windows host the uninstaller may offer to remove licenses from your registry Do not remove the licenses You can safely keep licenses for multiple VMware products on the computer at the same time On a Linux host the license remains in place You do not need to take any special action You may safely leave the license where it is 43 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Upgrading on a Windows Host Upgrading from Version 2 or 3 to Version 4 The Upgrade Process In most cases upgrading from version 2 or 3 is a four step process If you are upgrading from Workstation 2 on a Windows 2000 host that has host only networking there is an additional step See Upgrading on a Windows 2000 Host with Host Only Networking below for details You may upgrade from version 3 to version 4 using the VMware Workstation 4 upgrade product To upgrade from version 2 to version 4 you must have the full VMware Workstation 4 product 1 Uninstall the version now installed on your computer For details see Removing Version 2 or Removing Version 3 below Note The uninstaller may offer to remove licenses from yo
17. 3 Click Disable adapter 4 Click OK Windows NT Hosts Use the host operating system s networking control panel to disable any unwanted adapters 1 Choose Start gt Settings gt Control Panel 2 Double click Network 3 Click the Bindings tab 200 TT tmiarecom CHAPTER 9 Networking 4 Choose All adapters 5 Select the VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter you want to disable The host only network is VMnet1 the NAT network is VMnet8 Click Disable Disabling a Host Virtual Adapter on a Windows Host Follow these steps to disable a host virtual adapter on a Windows host 1 Go to Edit gt Virtual Network Settings gt Host Virtual Adapters 2 Select the disabled adapter you want to enable 3 Click Enable adapter 4 Click OK Adding a Host Virtual Adapter on a Windows Host Follow these steps to add a host virtual adapter on a Windows host 1 Go to Edit gt Virtual Network Settings gt Host Virtual Adapters 2 Click Add new adapter 3 Choose the virtual network on which you want to use the adapter and click OK 4 Click Apply 5 Click OK to close the Virtual Network Editor 6 Windows NT only Reboot the host computer Removing a Host Virtual Adapter on a Windows Host 1 Go to Edit gt Virtual Network Settings gt Host Virtual Adapters Virtual Network Editor Summary Automatic Bridging Host Virtual Network Mapping Host Virtual Adapters DHCP NAT Network Adapter Virtual Network Status VMware Network Adapte
18. Click the Display Type button The Display Type dialog box appears Click the Change button The Change Display dialog box appears Select VMware Inc from the Manufacturer list Select VMware SVGA as the display adapter and click OK Click Yes in response to the on screen question about third party drivers to install the driver then click OK to confirm the drivers were installed Click Close from the Display Type dialog box then click Close from the Display Properties dialog box Click Yes to restart Windows NT and start using the new video driver The VMware Tools background application is launched automatically when you reboot your virtual machine Windows Me 1 Bi aes ee S After installing VMware Tools click Finish The Display Settings dialog box appears Click the Advanced button Click the Adapter tab Click the Change button This starts the Update Device Driver Wizard The wizard now presents two options Choose the second option to Specify the location of the driver Click Next Check the Specify a location checkbox Enter the following path D video win9x D is the drive letter for the first virtual CD ROM drive in your virtual machine Click OK Windows Me automatically locates your driver Select the VMware SVGA II display adapter and click Next 79 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 9 Click Next to install the driver If you are upgrading a virtual machine created under VMware Workstat
19. Paste 104 Performance CD ROM drive polling 287 debugging mode 287 disk options 288 DMA and disks 296 guest operating system selection 286 Linux guest 300 memory settings 286 memory usage 292 process scheduling on a Windows host 289 remote disk access 289 system timer on a Linux host 290 using full screen mode on a Linux host 290 Windows 2000 guest 298 Windows 95 and Windows 98 guests 296 Persistent mode compared to snapshot 179 180 Physical disk configuring virtual machine on dual boot computer 146 using in a virtual machine 132 using in new virtual machine 68 Ping 221 Plain disk 132 Power buttons for a virtual machine 94 Power menu disabling functions 305 Preferences 110 Priorities for virtual machines on Windows host 113 Process scheduler 113 Processor host requirement 16 provided in virtual machine 19 Promiscuous mode 219 Q Quick switch mode 100 311 R RAM amount required on host 16 available in virtual machine 19 Raw disk adding 140 configuring virtual machine on dual boot computer 146 controlling access 148 defined 311 do not use Windows dynamic disks 161 installing guest operating system on 166 SCSI issues 161 using in a virtual machine 132 using in new virtual machine 68 Real time clock requirement on Linux host 34 Registration 25 Remove controls 102 devices from virtual machine 109 host virtual adapter 200 passwords for administrative lockout 303 removable de
20. Virtual Hardware Windows 95 and Windows 98 guests The first time you run a VMware Workstation 3 virtual machine under VMware Workstation 4 the guest operating system discovers new hardware and attempts to install drivers for it before it loads the CD ROM driver As a result it is unable to load drivers from the operating system installation CD In 49 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual many cases the drivers are already available in C Windows C Windows System or subdirectories under those two directories However a simpler approach is to skip any files that Windows does not find at this stage Then after the guest operating system has finished loading and is able to read from the CD ROM you can run the guest operating system s Add Hardware Wizard and allow it to detect new hardware and install the appropriate drivers You need to install the new version of VMware Tools If you have decided to upgrade the virtual hardware do that after you finish installing VMware Tools Note Ifyou are upgrading a virtual machine that runs from a physical disk rather than a virtual disk you may see the following error message while VMware Workstation is upgrading the virtual hardware Unable to upgrade lt drivename gt One of the supplied parameters is invalid You may safely click OK to continue the upgrade process If you upgrade the virtual hardware you may then need to take several steps to be sure the new virtual hardware is
21. Welcome to Setup A You do not have VMware Tools installed 75 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 3 Follow the Windows XP installation steps as you would for a physical computer Windows XP Professional Ctrl Alt F1 VMware Workstation File Edit Power Snapshot View Windows Help Windows XP Professional XP Professional x GB Windows XP Professional Windows Collecting An exciting new look information Dynamic i Update e appeana c tha ta nd exceptionally streamlined Preparing installation s t to find important in the use most Finalizing installation Setup will complete in approximately 39 minutes www vmware com 76 CHAPTER 4 Creating a New Virtual Machine Installing VMware Tools The installers for VMware Tools for Windows Linux FreeBSD and NetWare guest operating systems are built into VMware Workstation as ISO image files An ISO image file looks like a CD ROM to your guest operating system and even appears as a CD ROM in Windows Explorer You do not use an actual CD ROM to install VMware Tools nor do you need to download the CD ROM image or burn a physical CD ROM of this image file VMware Tools for Windows supports Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows Me Windows NT 4 0 Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 guest Operating systems When you choose File gt Install VMware Tools from the VMware Workstation menu VMware Workstation temporarily connects the virtu
22. Workstation must turn off System Restore on the host computer while it runs the updater If this were not done and you restored the host to a restore point that was set sometime before you ran the updater the System Restore feature would rename your virtual disk files to use the dsk extension You would again have the conflict the updater was designed to solve Note Because the VMware Workstation updater turns off the System Restore feature while it runs all existing restore points are deleted 135 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual System Restore is turned back on after the updater completes its work Running the Updater at a Later Time On a Windows host computer you can run the filename updater at any time To do so follow these steps 1 Open a command prompt 2 Change to the folder in which the VMware Workstation program files are installed If you installed the files in the default locations use this command cd C Program Files VMware VMware Workstation Programs 3 Run the updater dskrename exe Defragmenting and Shrinking Virtual Disks If you have a virtual disk that grows as data is added you can defragment and shrink it as described in this section If you allocated all the space for your virtual disk at the time you created it you cannot defragment and shrink it To defragment the virtual disks attached to a virtual machine power off the virtual machine then go to the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit
23. appears only once If Besides renaming files the converter updates the corresponding virtual machine configuration files so they identify the virtual disks using the new filenames you click Cancel you If you store your virtual disk files or suspended state files on a Windows XP or will not have another Windows Server 2003 host or if you may do so in the future it is important opportunity to update the filenames and to convert the filenames to avoid conflicts with the System Restore feature of configuration files Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 atigratically A Start the New Virtual Machine Wizard When you start VMware Workstation you can open an existing virtual machine or create a new one Choose File gt New gt New Virtual Machine to begin creating your virtual machine 5 The New Virtual Machine Wizard presents you with a series of screens that you navigate using the Next and Prev buttons at the bottom of each screen At each screen follow the instructions then click Next to proceed to the next screen 6 Select the method you want to use for configuring your virtual machine New Virtual Machine Wizard Select the Appropriate Configuration ST How would you prefer to configure your new virtual machine Sy Virtual machine configuration Typical Create a new virtual machine with the most common devices and configuration options Custom Choose this option if you need to create a vi
24. hardware However if an operating system is already installed on the physical computer for example in a dual boot configuration the operating system already is configured to use the physical hardware devices In order to boot such a preinstalled operating system in a virtual machine you need to create separate hardware profiles in order to simplify the boot process Microsoft Windows operating systems beginning with Windows 95 and Windows NT 4 0 allow you to create hardware profiles Each hardware profile is associated with a set of known devices If more than one hardware profile exists the system prompts the user to choose between different hardware profiles at boot time Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows Me Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 use Plug and Play at boot time to confirm that the actual devices match the chosen hardware profile Mismatches lead to the automatic detection of new devices Although this operation succeeds it can be fairly slow Windows NT does not have Plug and Play support and uses the hardware profiles to initialize its devices Mismatches lead to errors reported by the device drivers and the devices are disabled In order to set up hardware profiles for your physical and virtual machines follow these steps 1 Before running VMware Workstation to boot an operating system previously installed on a disk partition boot the operating system natively and create two hardware profiles which you
25. or partition used by the virtual machine Lock Files A running virtual machine creates lock files to prevent consistency problems on virtual disks If the virtual machine did not use locks multiple virtual machines might read and write to the disk causing data corruption Lock files are always created in the same directory as the vmdk file The locking methods used by VMware Workstation on Windows and Linux hosts are different so files shared between them are not fully protected If you use a common file repository that provides files to users on both Windows and Linux hosts be sure that each virtual machine is run by only one user at a time When a virtual machine is powered off it removes the lock files it created If it cannot remove the lock a stale lock file is left protecting the vmdk file For example if the 1 34 www vmMware com CHAPTER 7 Using Disks host machine crashes before the virtual machine has a chance to remove its lock file a stale lock remains If a stale lock file remains when the virtual machine is started again the virtual machine tries to remove the stale lock To make sure that no virtual machine could be using the lock file the virtual machine checks the lock file to see if 1 The lock was created on the same host where the virtual machine is running 2 The process that created the lock is not running If those two conditions are true the virtual machine can safely remove the stale lock If
26. s raw disk configuration files to guard access This provides boot managers access to configuration files and other files they may need to boot the operating systems For example LILO needs to read boot ona Linux partition to boot a non Linux operating system that may be on another drive As noted above you should consider the security implications of the configuration you choose 5 Ifyou plan to run a second Linux installation from an existing partition as a guest operating system and your physical computer s etc lilo conf hasa memory register statement such as Append mem you may want to adjust the append memory parameter or create a new entry in LILO for running Linux in a virtual machine If the amount of memory configured in lilo conf exceeds the amount of memory assigned to the virtual machine then when the virtual machine tries to boot the second Linux installation the guest operating system will most likely panic You can create another entry in Lilo conf for running Linux in a virtual machine by specifying a different amount of memory than what would normally be recognized when Linux boots directly on the physical machine 6 To configure a virtual machine to run from a raw disk partition start the New Virtual Machine Wizard File gt New gt New Virtual Machine and select Custom 7 When you reach the Select a Disk step select Use a physical disk 8 Complete the wizard steps specifying the appropriate disk or p
27. see Replacing USB 2 0 Drivers on a Windows 2000 Host on page 275 Notes on USB Support in Version 4 We have tested a variety of USB devices with this release In general if the guest operating system has appropriate drivers you should be able to use PDAS printers storage disk devices scanners MP3 players digital cameras and memory card readers Modems and certain streaming data devices such as speakers and Web cams do not work properly Enabling and Disabling the USB Controller The virtual machine s USB ports are enabled by default If you will not be using USB devices in a virtual machine you can disable its USB controller using the Virtual Machine Control Panel Connecting USB Devices When a virtual machine is running its window is the active window and a USB device is plugged into the host computer the device automatically connects to the guest instead of the host This autoconnect feature can be disabled in the USB Controller panel of the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings If all of the virtual machine s USB ports are already occupied when it is trying to connect automatically to a new device a dialog box gives you a choice you can either disconnect one of the existing USB devices to free its port or ignore the new device allowing the device to connect to the host 274 www vmMware com CHAPTER 11 Connecting Devices Choose Edit gt Removable Devices to connect specific USB de
28. which handles drivers for many hardware devices does not install new IDE drivers If you encounter this problem VMware recommends that you install your Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 guest operating system in a virtual disk rather than running it from a raw disk If you encounter this problem but it is important for you to run the virtual machine from the existing raw disk configuration you can set up separate hardware profiles described in Setting Up Hardware Profiles in Virtual Machines on page 154 and manually update the IDE driver in the profile for the virtual machine For a detailed description of the workaround see the VMware knowledge base Wwww vmware com into id 4 1 Setting Up the SVGA Video Driver for a Windows 95 Guest Operating System Booted from a Raw Disk This section explains how to configure the video driver in a Windows 95 raw disk installation using VMware Workstation The steps below assume you are using Windows 95 as one of the operating systems in a dual boot or multiple boot configuration Following these steps you create separate hardware profiles for your virtual machine and your physical machine For more details on hardware profiles see Setting Up Hardware Profiles in Virtual Machines on page 154 1 Boot Windows 95 natively not in a virtual machine 2 Right click the My Computer icon on the desktop then select Properties 3 Click the Hardware Profiles tab 4 Highlight the Origi
29. 0 NAT provides a simple way for virtual machines to use most client applications over almost any type of network connection available to the host The only requirement is that the network connection must support TCP IP NAT is useful when you have a limited supply of IP addresses or are connected to the network through a non Ethernet network adapter NAT works by translating addresses of virtual machines in a private VMnet network to that of the host machine When a virtual machine sends a request to access a network resource it appears to the network resource as if the request came from the host machine NAT uses the host s own network resources to connect to the external network Thus any TCP IP network resource to which the host has access should be available through the NAT connection The chief advantage of NAT is that it provides a transparent easy to configure way for virtual machines to gain access to network resources Using NAT The NAT device is connected to the VMnet8 virtual switch Virtual machines connected to the NAT network also use the VMnet8 virtual switch The NAT device waits for packets coming from virtual machines on the VMnet8 virtual network When a packet arrives the NAT device translates the address of the virtual machine to that of the host before forwarding the packet to the external network When data arrives from the external network for the virtual machine on the private network the NAT device receives the
30. 279 www vmware com drivers 164 generic SCSI on a Linux host 281 generic SCSI on a Windows host 279 permissions for a generic SCSI device on a Linux host 281 Serial connection between host application and vir tual machine 256 between two virtual machines 258 to a serial port on the host 254 Serial number 29 34 66 Serial port installing and using 254 Server DHCP 187 194 199 204 209 221 227 DNS 210 221 223 Samba 231 WINS 222 X on a Linux host 243 Set up administrative lockout 303 application settings 112 automatic bridging 196 bridged networking 196 DHCP on Linux host 204 DHCP on Windows host 204 DHCP settings 198 display resolution on a Linux host 243 generic SCSI device 279 282 host virtual network mapping 198 hot keys 111 memory size 292 parallel port 250 254 parallel port on a Linux host 251 preferences for virtual machine 110 process priorities on Windows host 113 reserved memory size 112 restricted user interface 305 screen colors 241 second bridged network on a Linux host 210 shared folder 104 software in virtual machine 103 sound 245 USB controller 274 virtual machine 63 virtual network 184 188 192 195 virtual network subnet settings 198 VMware Tools 86 Web browser on Linux host 37 X server 243 Share drag and drop 310 files among host and guest 104 107 files on a Linux host with Samba 231 Shared folder and Linux symbolic link 106 and Windows shortcut 106 defined 311
31. Connect the quest operating system to a private virtual network on the host computer Do not use a network connection If your host computer is on a network and you have a separate IP address for your virtual machine or can get one automatically from a DHCP server select Use bridged networking If you do not have a separate IP address for your virtual machine but you want to be able to connect to the Internet select Use network address translation NAT NAT is useful if you have a wireless network adapter on a Linux host as bridged networking on wireless network adapters is supported only on Windows hosts It also allows for the sharing of files between the virtual machine and the host operating system For more details about VMware Workstation networking options see Networking on page 183 10 If you selected Typical as your configuration path click Finish and the wizard sets up the files needed for your virtual machine If you selected Custom as your configuration path continue with the steps for configuring a disk for your virtual machine 11 Select the disk you want to use with the virtual machine New Virtual Machine Wizard Select a Disk Which disk do you want this drive to use Disk Create a new virtual disk virtual disk is composed of one or more files on the host file system which will appear as a single hard disk to the guest operating system Virtual disks can easily be copied or moved on the
32. Installing Windows XP as a Guest Operating System on page 75 Installing VMware Tools on page 77 e VMware Tools for Windows Guests on page 77 e VMware Tools for Linux Guests on page 81 e VMware Tools for FreeBSD Guests on page 83 Installing VMware Tools in a NetWare Virtual Machine on page 85 VMware Tools Configuration Options on page 86 Using the System Console to Configure VMware Tools in a NetWare Guest Operating System on page 88 64 www vmware comM CHAPTER 4 Creating a New Virtual Machine Setting Up a New Virtual Machine The New Virtual Machine Wizard guides you through the key steps for setting up a new virtual machine helping you set various options and parameters You can then use the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings if you need to make any changes to your virtual machine s setup What s in a Virtual Machine The virtual machine typically is stored on the host computer in a set of files all of which are in a directory set aside for that particular virtual machine In these examples lt vmname gt is the name of your virtual machine The key files are lt vmname gt vmx the configuration file which stores settings chosen in the New Virtual Machine Wizard or Virtual Machine Control Panel If you created the virtual machine under an earlier version of VMware Workstation on a Linux host this file may have a c g extension nvram the file that stores the state of the virtual m
33. Machine Control Panel 305 functions on Power menu 305 functions on Snapshot menu 305 interface features 303 virtual machine 108 U Undoable mode compared to snapshot 179 180 migrating 126 Uninstall host virtual adapter 200 on Linux host 37 on Windows host 33 Unplug USB devices 277 Upgrade from Workstation 2 and 3 40 Linux kernel reconfiguring Worksta tion after upgrade 36 on Linux host 46 on Windows host 44 virtual disks 78 virtual hardware 57 virtual machine 47 58 VMware Workstation 39 USB connecting devices 274 control of devices by host and guest 276 devices in a virtual machine 274 disconnecting devices 277 enabling and disabling the control ler 274 keyboard and mouse 278 on a Linux host 276 on a Windows host 275 supported device types 274 User interface overview 93 restricted 305 V Video resolution on a Linux host 243 www vmware comM See also Display Virtual disk add to virtual machine 138 defined 131 312 location 68 migrating 78 See also Disks size 68 71 72 139 Virtual hardware upgrading 57 Virtual machine capturing screen shot of 110 constituent files 65 creating 63 defined 312 installing software in 103 migrating 124 moving 118 platform specifications 19 power buttons 94 resuming 107 175 shutting down 108 starting 96 98 suspending 107 175 taking and restoring snapshot 108 upgrading 47 58 window size 101 Virtual Machine Control Panel defined 312 restricting acce
34. Samba server and you want to set it up log on to the root account on your host computer su then run vmware config pl froma terminal on the host The configuration script asks Do you want this script to automatically configure your system to allow your virtual machines to access the host 235 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual file system Answer Yes If You Are Already Running Samba If you already have Samba running on your Linux host you should not install the VMware Workstation Samba server when you are installing VMware Workstation on your host The configuration script prompts you Do you want this script to automatically configure your system to allow your virtual machines to access the host file system Answer No Be sure to modify your Samba configuration so it includes the IP subnet used by the VMware Workstation virtual Ethernet adapter VMnet1 To determine what subnet is being used by VMnet1 run sbin ifconfig vmnet1 You must be sure the Samba password file includes entries for all users of the virtual machine who will access the host s file system The user names and passwords in the Samba password file must be the same as those used for logging on to the guest Operating system You may add user names and passwords to the Samba password file at any time from a terminal window on your Linux host computer 1 Log on to the root account su 2 Run the Samba password command smbpasswd a lt username gt lt
35. Save your settings and close VMware Workstation In the directory just created for the new virtual machine delete the brand new vmdk files that were just created Locate the virtual disk files you are moving and copy them into the new virtual machine directory Note If your virtual machine is using disks in Undoable mode and you did not commit or discard your changes before the move you must also move the redo log REDO file to the new host computer Start VMware Workstation 4 again and open the new virtual machine you just created Go to Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings Be sure the virtual machine is configured to use the virtual disk files you moved from the original host You need to confirm that the new disk s settings IDE or SCSI and the file name for the first vmdk file match those that were used on the original host machine The device listing for the hard drive shows whether it is SCSI or IDE If that setting does not match the virtual disk you are moving select the hard disk and click Remove Then click Add and use the Add Hardware Wizard to add an IDE or SCSI disk as appropriate To specify IDE or SCSI when you reach the Disk File screen in the wizard click the Advanced button Be sure the filename and path for the virtual disk match the actual filename and location for the first vmdk file used by the virtual machine you are moving 125 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 126 Consideratio
36. VIA PCI 10 100Mb Fast Ethernet Adapter Packet Scheduler Miniport Remove To remove an adapter from the list of excluded adapters select its name in the list then click Remove 197 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Virtual Network Editor Summary Automatic Bridging Host Virtual Network Mapping Host Virtual Adapters DHCP NAT VMnetO Bridged to an automatically chosen adapter VMnetl EY VMware Network Adapter YMnet1 VMnet2 Not bridged Not bridged BY VIA PCI 10 100Mb Fast Ethernet Adapter Packet Scheduler Miniport EF Intel R PRO 100 Management Adapter BY 3Com 30920 Integrated Fast Ethemet Controller 3C905C T Compatible Pa VMnet3 VMnet4 VMnet5 Not bridged VMnet6 Not bridged VMnet Not bridged pte VMware Network Adapter VMnet 8 a VMinetS Not bridged T us Uv 5 To designate a physical Ethernet adapter to be used for bridged networking on virtual switches named VMnet2 VMnet click the Host Virtual Network Mapping tab Choose an adapter from the drop down list beside the name of the virtual switch you want to use Caution Be careful when you change the bridged adapter mappings If you re assign a physical Ethernet adapter to a different virtual network any virtual machine using the original network loses its network connectivity via that network You must then change the setting for each affected virtual
37. Virtual Machines As a precaution back up all the files in your virtual machine directories including the vmdk or dsk vmx or cfg and nvram files for any existing virtual machines you plan to migrate to VMware Workstation 4 Depending on your upgrade path you may not be able to run your virtual machines under both VMware Workstation 4 and your previous version of VMware Workstation Virtual machines created under Workstation 2 must have their virtual hardware updated before they can run under Workstation 4 Once they are updated they cannot be run under Workstation 2 You have a choice with virtual machines that you created under Workstation 3 or updated to use the Workstation 3 virtual hardware You may update these virtual machines for full compatibility with Workstation 4 In that case the virtual machines can no longer be used under Workstation 3 You may choose not to update the virtual hardware In that case you can run the virtual machines under both Workstation 3 and Workstation 4 but you will not have the benefits of the new virtual hardware provided by Workstation 4 Other Workstation 4 features will not be available For example you cannot take a Snapshot or revert to the snapshot while the virtual machine is running you must power off before taking or reverting to the snapshot When You Remove Version 2 or 3 and Install Version 4 There is a key precaution you should take when you remove VMware Workstation 2 or
38. Windows 98 and start using the new video driver 12 The VMware Tools background application starts automatically when you reboot your virtual machine 80 www vmMware com CHAPTER 4 Creating a New Virtual Machine Windows 95 I After installing VMware Tools click Finish The Display Settings dialog box appears Click the Advanced Properties button The Advanced Display Properties dialog box appears Click the Change button The Select Device dialog box appears Select Have Disk Enter the following path D video win9x D is the drive letter for the first virtual CD ROM drive in your virtual machine Click OK Click OK again to install the driver Click Close from the Advanced Display Properties dialog box then click Close from the Display Setting dialog box Click Yes to restart Windows 95 and start using the new video driver The VMware Tools background application starts automatically when you reboot your virtual machine VMware Tools for Linux Guests if P Power on the virtual machine After the guest operating system has started prepare your virtual machine to install VMware Tools Choose File gt Install VMware Tools The remaining steps take place inside the virtual machine 3 Be sure the guest operating system is running in text mode You cannot install VMware Tools while X is running As root su mount the VMware Tools virtual CD ROM image change to a working directory for exa
39. You may need to insert your Windows 98 installation CD A blue screen appears Press any key to dismiss the blue screen Click Reset to restart the virtual machine because it is not responding Click OK to dismiss the message A legacy SVGA driver has been detected Again you see a number of Plug and Play messages Windows notifies you to restart Windows Click Yes Log on to Windows 98 The SVGA driver is not working properly From the Windows Start menu choose Settings gt Control Panel gt System gt Device Manager gt Display Adapters Manually remove the two conflicting SVGA drivers 59 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 10 Restart Windows 98 A VMware SVGA II adapter is detected and Windows installs it 11 Restart Windows 98 12 The SVGA driver should be working correctly 13 Install the new version of VMware Tools See Installing VMware Tools on page 77 for details Windows 95 Guest 1 Power on the virtual machine 2 Allow Workstation to upgrade the virtual hardware 3 Click OK to dismiss the message A legacy SVGA driver has been detected 4 Log on to Windows 95 You see a number of Plug and Play messages Click Cancel for those listing the following devices Standard host CPU bridge PC bridge and PCI Universal bus 5 The SVGA driver is not working properly 6 From the Windows Start menu choose Settings gt Control Panel gt System gt Device Manager gt Display Adapters
40. a different type Windows to Linux or vice versa You cannot move the disk to another directory on the current system If your disk file information does not contain a path it looks like this Windows Me vmdk If your disk entry resembles the one above just a filename with a vmdk extension you can move the disk and redo log anywhere you wish 127 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 128 Sharing Virtual Machines with Other Users If you intend to have other users access your virtual machines you should consider the following points On Windows hosts the virtual machine files should be in a location on a system that is accessible to those users When you create a virtual machine by default all the files associated with it are placed in C Documents and Settings lt user name gt My Documents My Virtual Machines Other users typically do not have access to this folder When you configure the virtual machine in the New Virtual Machine Wizard you can specify a location for the virtual machine elsewhere on your system or on the network On Linux hosts permissions for the virtual machine files especially the configuration file vmx and virtual disks vmdk should be set for other users according to how you want them to use the virtual machine For instance if you want users to run a virtual machine but not be able to modify its configuration do not make the configuration file writable If your virtual machine wa
41. all the files in the virtual machine s original directory If you stored any files in directories other than the virtual machine directory be sure to move them into a directory of the same name and same position relative to the location of the virtual machine If for some reason you are not moving a file make sure you do not have any paths pointing to that file Use the Virtual Machine Control Panel and check to see if your virtual machine is pointing to the correct location for files you do not move In the Virtual Machine Control Panel select each device and be sure that any devices with associated files are pointed to the correct files Also check the Options tab to be sure the location for the redo log file is correct Note If you have taken a snapshot of the virtual machine you can simplify the move by removing the snapshot or reverting to the snapshot then removing it If you want to keep the snapshot be sure to move the redo log REDO files along with all the other files in the virtual machine s directory 3 Start VMware Workstation and open the virtual machine you just moved Choose File gt Open then browse to the virtual machine s configuration vmx file 120 Twi CHAPTER 6 Moving and Sharing Virtual Machines Moving a VMware Workstation 3 1 or 3 2 Virtual Machine If you want to move a virtual machine created with VMware Workstation 3 1 or 3 2 you may prefer to upgrade it for full compatibility with VMwar
42. and replace it with a BusLogic SCSI host adapter your operating system will most likely fail to boot unless you install a BusLogic driver 1 64 www vmMware com CHAPTER 7 Using Disks Dual booting from a disk that is also used as a virtual disk is no different To your operating system it appears that the SCSI card in the machine suddenly changed from whatever you own to a BusLogic card and your operating system needs to have a valid BusLogic driver installed If that driver is not installed you get a panic a blue screen or some similar fatal error as soon as the boot process tries to switch from the BIOS bootstrap to the disk driver installed in the operating system Operating System Configuration Many operating systems have configuration information that is different for SCSI and IDE drives For example Linux uses dev hd x as the device name for IDE disks and dev sd x for SCSI disks References to these names appear in etc stab and other configuration files This is one reason that booting a raw IDE disk as a SCSI disk or vice versa does not work well if at all However even when you are dealing only with SCSI devices it is possible for an operating system to encode information in a way that causes problems when you are dual booting For example Solaris names its SCSI disks dev c x tly d z s0 where the y represents the SCSI ID So if you had a raw disk configured as SCSI ID 3 on the host and as SCSI ID 0 in your VMware
43. be initiated from outside the network although you can set up server connections by manually configuring the NAT device The practical result is that some TCP and UDP protocols that require a connection be initiated from the server machine some 226 rs peer to peer applications for example do not work automatically and some may not work at all A standard NAT configuration provides basic level firewall protection because the NAT device can initiate connections from the private NAT network but devices on the external network cannot normally initiate connections to the private NAT network Using NAT with NetLogon When using NAT networking in a virtual machine with a Windows guest operating system running on a Windows host you can use NetLogon to log on to a Windows domain from the virtual machine You can then access file shares Known by the WINS server in the domain To use NetLogon you need to know how WINS servers and Windows domain controllers work This section explains how to set up the virtual machine to use NetLogon The setup process is similar to the way you set up a physical computer on one LAN that is using a domain controller on another LAN In order to log on to a Windows domain outside the virtual NAT network the virtual machine needs access to a WINS server for that domain There are two ways you can connect the virtual machine to a WINS server You can connect to the WINS server provided by the DHCP server used
44. by a variety of devices including printers scanners dongles and disk drives Currently VMware Workstation provides only partial emulation of PS 2 hardware Specifically interrupts requested by a device connected to the physical port are not passed to the virtual machine Also the guest operating system cannot use DMA direct memory access to move data to or from the port For this reason not all devices that attach to the parallel port are guaranteed to work correctly Installation in Guest Operating Systems If the virtual machine is configured with a parallel port most guest operating systems automatically detect it at installation time and install the required drivers Some operating systems including Linux Windows NT and Windows 2000 automatically detect the ports at boot time Others like Windows 95 and Windows 98 do not To add a parallel port to the virtual machine s configuration take these steps with the virtual machine powered off 1 Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings 2 Click Add to start the New Hardware Wizard 3 Select Parallel Port then click Next 4 Make the appropriate selection to use a physical parallel port or connect the virtual parallel port to a file 5 Ifyou selected Use physical port choose the port from the drop down list If you selected Use output file enter the path and filename or browse to the location of the file 250 o omn CHAPTER 11 Con
45. can call Physical Machine and Virtual Machine To do this open Control Panel gt System then click the Hardware Profiles tab or click the Hardware tab then click Hardware Profiles depending on the operating system Click the Copy button and name the copies appropriately 2 Windows NT only While still running the operating system natively use the Device Manager to disable some devices from the Virtual Machine hardware profile To do this open Control Panel gt Devices then select the individual devices to disable Devices to disable in the Virtual Machine hardware profile include audio MIDI and joystick devices Ethernet and other network devices and USB devices Remember to disable them in the Virtual Machine hardware profile only Skip this step if you are running Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows Me Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 The initial Plug and Play phase detects device mismatches 155 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 3 Reboot the computer into your intended host operating system for example into Linux if you are running VMware Workstation on a Linux host 4 Use the New Virtual Machine Wizard to configure your virtual machine as described in Configuring Dual or Multiple Boot Systems to Run with VMware Workstation on page 148 5 Boot the virtual machine and use your existing boot manager to select the guest operating system Choose Virtual Machine at the hardware profile menu prompt You
46. configuration using the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings Windows host Select Network Adapter then select Host only VMnet1 from the drop down list on the right If no network adapter is shown in the list of devices click Add then use the Add Hardware Wizard to add an adapter Linux host Click the sign to expand the Ethernet Adapters list and select the first adapter From the Connection Type drop down list on the right select Host only If the list of devices indicates the adapter is not installed click Install Configuration 2 Connect to the Newly Created Host Only Interface l Create the virtual machine using the New Virtual Machine Wizard or use an existing virtual machine Launch VMware Workstation and open the virtual machine Edit the configuration using the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings Windows host Select Network Adapter then select Custom VMnet2 from the drop down list on the right If no network adapter is shown in the list of devices click Add then use the Add Hardware Wizard to add an adapter 213 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 214 Linux host Click the sign to expand the Ethernet Adapters list and select the first adapter From the Connection Type drop down list on the right select Custom In the VMnet field type dev vmnet2 If the list of devices indicates the adapter is not installed click Install C
47. correct driver already If the driver provider is not Microsoft download the latest USB driver for your host operating system from the Microsoft Web site and follow the Microsoft instructions to install it Details are available in Microsoft knowledge base article 319973 Using USB with a Linux Host On Linux hosts VMware Workstation uses the USB device file system to connect to USB devices In most Linux systems that support USB the USB device file system is at proc bus usb If your host operating system uses a different path to the USB device file system you can change it in the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings gt USB Enter the correct path in the Path to usbdevfs field Who Has Control over a USB Device Only one computer host or guest can have control of a USB device at any one time Device Control on a Windows Host When you connect a device to a virtual machine it is Unplugged from the host or from the virtual machine that previously had control of the device When you disconnect a device from a virtual machine it is plugged in to the host Note On Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 hosts when you connect a USB network or storage device in a virtual machine you may see a Message on your host that says the device can be removed safely This is normal behavior and you can simply dismiss the dialog box However do not remove the device from your physical co
48. data replaces the network address with that of the virtual machine and forwards the data to the virtual machine on the virtual network This translation occurs automatically and requires minimal configuration on the guest and the host The Host Computer and the NAT Network The host computer has a host virtual adapter on the NAT network identical to the host virtual adapter on the host only network This adapter allows the host and the virtual machines to communicate with each other for such purposes as file sharing The NAT never forwards traffic from the host virtual adapter 220 S e CHAPTER 9 Networking DHCP on the NAT Network In order to make networking configuration easy a DHCP server is automatically installed when you install VMware Workstation Virtual machines running on the network with the NAT device can dynamically obtain their IP addresses by sending out DHCP requests The DHCP server on the NAT network which is also used in host only networking configurations dynamically allocates IP addresses in the range of lt net gt 128 through lt net gt 254 where lt net gt is the network number assigned to your NAT network VMware Workstation always uses a Class C address for NAT networks IP addresses lt net gt 3 through lt net gt 127 can be used for static IP addresses IP address lt net gt 1 is reserved for the host adapter lt net gt 2 is reserved for the NAT device In addition to the IP address the DHCP server on
49. data corruption in the file 106 nn CHAPTER 5 Running VMware Workstation Using Drag and Drop With the drag and drop features of VMware Workstation 4 you can move files easily between a Windows host and a Windows virtual machine You can drag and drop individual files or entire directories You can drag and drop files or folders from a file manager such as Windows Explorer on the host to a file manager in the virtual machine or vice versa You can also drag files from a file manager to an application that supports drag and drop or from applications such as zip file managers that support drag and drop extraction of individual files When you drag a file or folder from host to virtual machine or from virtual machine to host Workstation copies the file or folder to the location where you drop it This means for example that if you drop a file on the desktop icon of a word processor the word processor opens with a copy of the original file The original file does not reflect any changes you make to the copy Initially the application opens using a copy of the file that is stored in your temp directory as specified in the TEMP environment variable To protect any changes you make choose File gt Save As from the application s menu and save the file in a different directory Otherwise it may be overwritten or deleted by mistake To disable or enable drag and drop for a virtual machine 1 Open the Virtual Machine Control P
50. editor to remove three lines from the configuration file and add one line The configuration file has a vmx extension at the end of the filename On a Linux host a virtual machine created with an earlier VMware product may have a configuration file with a cfg extension Remove the three lines that begin with the following from the configuration file ethernet n generatedAddress ethernet n addressType ethernet n generatedAddressOffset In these options n is the number of the virtual Ethernet adapter for example etherneto Add the following line to the configuration file ethernetO address 00 50 56 XX YY 22Z In this line XX must be a valid hexadecimal number between 00h and 3Fh and YY and ZZ must be valid hexadecimal numbers between 00h and FFh Because VMware Workstation virtual machines do not support arbitrary MAC addresses you must use the above format So long as you choose a value for XX YY ZZ that is unique among your hard coded addresses where XX is a valid hexadecimal number between 00h and 3Fh and YY 208 o omn CHAPTER 9 Networking and ZZ are valid hexadecimal numbers between 00h and FFh conflicts between the automatically assigned MAC addresses and the manually assigned ones should never occur Controlling Routing Information for a Host Only Network on a Linux Host A host only network is a full fledged network It has a network interface associated with it VMnet1 that is marked up
51. either of those conditions is not true a dialog box appears warning you that the virtual machine cannot be powered on If you are sure it is safe to do so you may delete the lock files manually On Windows hosts the filenames of the lock files end in Lck On Linux hosts the filenames of the lock files end in WRITELOCK Raw disk partitions are also protected by locks However the host operating system is not aware of this locking convention and thus does not respect it For this reason VMware strongly recommends that the raw disk for a virtual machine not be installed on the same physical disk as the host operating system Updating Filenames for Virtual Disks Created with Earlier VMware Products Except for VMware Workstation 3 previous VMware products including VMware Workstation 2 named virtual disk files with a dsk extension To avoid conflicts with the System Restore feature on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 hosts VMware Workstation now uses a vmdk extension for those files VMware Workstation 4 updates existing virtual disk files automatically It also automatically updates references to the virtual disk files in the configuration files for the virtual machine In addition VMware Workstation converts the filename extensions for the files that store the state of a suspended virtual machine The old extension was std The extension is now vmss If your host computer is running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 VMware
52. following line to your virtual machine s configuration file serial lt n gt pipe charTimePercent lt x gt This option is useful if you want to squeeze every possible bit of soeed from your serial connection over a pipe to the virtual machine In principle there is no limit on the output speed the speed at which the virtual machine sends data through the 262 are gimn CHAPTER 11 Connecting Devices virtual serial port In practice the output speed depends on how fast the application at the other end of the pipe reads data inbound to it lt n gt is the number of the serial port starting from 0 So the first serial port is serialo lt x gt s any positive integer It specifies the time taken to transmit a character expressed as a percentage of the default speed set for the serial port in the guest operating system For example a setting of 200 forces the port to take twice as long per character or send data at half the default speed A setting of 50 forces the port to take only half as long per character or send data at twice the default speed You should first use the guest operating system to configure the serial port for the highest setting supported by the application you are running in the virtual machine Once the serial port speed is set appropriately in the guest operating system experiment with this setting Start with a value of 100 and gradually decrease it until you find the highest speed at which your connec
53. have the option of configuring more than one bridged network You can also configure additional bridged networks at any time by rerunning vmware config pl 1 On the host computer become root su and run the VMware Workstation configuration script vmnware config pl 2 Ifyou have more than one physical Ethernet adapter one of the prompts you see is similar to this The following bridged networks have been defined vmnetO is bridged to eth0 Do you wish to configure another bridged network yes no no Enter yes 3 Ifyou have additional physical Ethernet adapters not yet connected to a bridged network the prompt is repeated showing information about all currently configured bridged networks 4 When you have set up all the bridged networks you want enter no Setting Up Two Separate Host Only Networks For some configurations you may need to set up more than one host only network on the same host computer You may for example want to have two virtual machines connected to one host only network and at the same time have other virtual machines connected to another host only network so the network traffic on each network is isolated Or you may want to test routing between two virtual networks Or test a virtual machine with multiple network interface cards without using any physical Ethernet adapters On Windows hosts the first host only network is set up automatically when you install VMware Workstation O
54. impact of reverting to the snapshot In general it is best to take the Snapshot when no applications in the virtual machine are communicating with other computers The potential for problems is greatest if the virtual machine is Communicating with another computer especially in a production environment Consider a case in which you take a snapshot while the virtual machine is downloading a file from a server on the network After you take the snapshot the virtual machine continues downloading the file communicating its progress to the server If you revert to the snapshot communications between the virtual machine and the server are confused and the file transfer fails Or consider a case in which you take a snapshot while an application in the virtual machine is sending a transaction to a database on a separate machine If you revert to the snapshot especially if you revert after the transaction starts but before it has been committed the database is likely to be confused 181 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 182 Fico 9 Networking CHAPTER 9 183 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Configuring Your Virtual Network VMware Workstation provides virtual networking components that let you create a wide range of configurations If you select the Typical setup path in the New Virtual Machine Wizard when you create a virtual machine the wizard sets up bridged networking for the virtual machine You can choose any o
55. in a window Note VMware Workstation does not support running virtual machines in full screen mode on dual monitor systems 99 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Using Quick Switch Mode Quick switch mode is similar to full screen mode with the addition of tabs at the top of the screen for switching from one active virtual machine to another The virtual machine s screen is resized to fill the screen completely except for the space occupied by the tabs To enter quick switch mode choose View gt Quick Switch To view the VMware Workstation menu and tool bar while you are using quick switch mode move the mouse pointer to the top of the screen To resize a Windows guest operating system s display so it fills as much of the screen as possible in quick switch mode choose View gt Fit Guest to Window The Fit Guest to Window option works only if you have the current version of VMware Tools installed in the guest operating system Note When you choose Fit Guest to Window VMware Workstation adjusts the display settings of your Windows guest operating system as needed If you subsequently run the virtual machine in normal mode you may want to change the display settings back to their previous values To get out of quick switch mode move the mouse pointer to the top of the screen to activate the menu then choose View gt Quick Switch Taking Advantage of Multiple Monitors If your host has a standard multiple monitor display
56. it on automatically and switches to full screen mode Be sure to enclose the entire command string in quotation marks Note On Windows the configuration file has a vmx extension by default Path names on Windows use the backslash character X toolkit options are not relevant on a Windows host 1 1 4 www vmMware com CHAPTER 5 Running VMware Workstation Keyboard Shortcuts If you prefer to work from the keyboard as much as possible you may find the following keyboard shortcuts handy If you have changed the Preferences setting for the hot key combination substitute your new setting for Ctrl Alt as needed in the shortcuts listed here Edit preferences Ctrl Alt Enter Go to full screen mode Ctrl Alt Return to normal windowed mode Ctrl Alt Tab Switch among open virtual machines while mouse and keyboard input are grabbed Ctrl Tab Switch among open virtual machines while mouse and keyboard input are not grabbed VMware Workstation must be the active application Ctrl Shift Tab Switch among open virtual machines while mouse and keyboard input are not grabbed VMware Workstation must be the active application Ctrl Alt Fx Switch among open virtual machines while using full screen mode Fx is a function key corresponding to the virtual machine you want to use The key combination to use for a virtual machine is shown in the VMware Workstation title bar when that virtual machine is active and in normal windowed mode 1
57. it were a physical computer on the network Be aware that if the host computer is set up to boot multiple operating systems and you run one or more of them in virtual machines you need to configure each operating system with a unique network address People who boot multiple operating systems often assign all systems the same address since they assume only one operating system will be running at a time If you use one or more of the operating systems in a virtual machine this assumption is no longer true If you make some other selection in the New Virtual Machine Wizard and later decide you want to use bridged networking you can make that change in the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings For details see Changing the Networking Configuration on page 195 Network Address Translation NAT Virtual Ethernet adapter Onn E E E E Rom ff Virtual machine DHCP server Virtual Ethernet switch VMnet8 NAT device NAT gives a virtual machine access to network resources using the host computer s IP address A network address translation connection is set up automatically if you follow the Custom path in the New Virtual Machine Wizard and select Use network address translation If you want to connect to the Internet or other TCP IP network using the host computer s dial up networking or broadband connection and you are not able to give your virtual machine an IP address on the external network NAT is
58. keysym name for a key is to run xev or xmodmap pk The X header file usr X11R6 include X11 keysymdef hhasa complete list of keysyms The name of a keysym is the same as its C constant without the XK_ prefix Most v scan codes are in V Scan Code Table on page 269 The xkeymap tables themselves are also helpful Use them to fix small errors in an existing mapping xkeymap fileName lt file path gt Use the keysym mapping table in lt ile path gt A table is a sequence of configuration lines of the form lt sym gt lt v scan code gt where lt sym gt is an X keysym name and lt v scan code gt is a C syntax hexadecimal number for example 0x001 See the explanation of xkeymap keysym above for tips on finding the keysyms and v scan codes for your keyboard Compiling a complete keysym mapping is difficult It is best to start with an existing table and make small changes V Scan Code Table These are the v scan codes for the 104 key U S keyboard Esc a C C Cc C C C Cc 269 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual C a S C C a a C C E a C C a SC E C ew O peo SYO 270 Fico o f b C a S C p poo C a S C a S C a S C C a S LC S LC E p pe se fee os S A I wo p p pe C C a C a S C a a S C C a a C e po f pe foo C a S C C a S a a S A a S C C a a C Sna forea os S a a 0 rove gt a 08 Ener 08 E a C C 00d ES WO COLTny_ an aT BR oj N gt fev oO C
59. machine may require you to reactivate the software To 103 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual minimize the number of significant changes set the final memory size for your virtual machine and install VMware Tools before you activate the software Note When you try to run a few programs including the installer for the Japanese language version of Trend Micro Virus Buster Workstation may appear to hang For the workaround to this problem see the troubleshooting note on the VMware Web site at www vmware com info id 30 Cutting Copying and Pasting Text When VMware Tools is running you can cut or copy and paste text between applications in the virtual machine and the host computer or between two virtual machines Use the normal hot keys or menu choices to cut copy and paste To turn off this feature to prevent accidental copying and pasting from one environment to another change your preferences Choose Edit gt Preferences On the Input tab clear the check box beside Enable copy and paste to and from virtual machine Using Shared Folders With shared folders you can easily share files among virtual machines and the host computer To use shared folders you must have the current version of VMware Tools installed in the guest operating system and you must use the Virtual Machine Control Panel to specify which directories are to be shared You can use shared folders with virtual machines running the following gue
60. machine s network adapter individually This can be especially troublesome if your host has only one physical Ethernet adapter and you reassign it to a VMnet other than VMnet0 even though the VMnet still appears to be bridged to an automatically chosen adapter the only adapter it can use has been assigned to another VMnet Virtual Network Editor Summary Automatic Bridging Host Virtual Network Mapping Host Virtual Adapters DHCP NAT VMnet0 Bridged to an automatically chosen adapter VMnetl EF VMware Network Adapter VMnet1 VMnet2 Not bridged VMnet3 Not bridged VMnet4 Not bridged VMnetS Not bridged VMnet6 Not bridged VMnet Not bridged VMnet8 BY VMware Network Adapter VMnet8 aa aaa VMnet3 Not bridged 25 E o 6 To make changes to the subnet or the DHCP settings for a virtual network click the button on the right that corresponds to the virtual network you want to configure then choose Subnet or DHCP 198 nn 8 9 CHAPTER 9 Networking IP Address 192 168 224 0 Cancel Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 In the Subnet dialog box you can change the subnet s IP address and the Subnet mask The address should specify a valid network address that is suitable for use with the subnet mask The default subnet mask is 255 255 255 0 a class C network Typically this means you should modify only the th
61. machines you intend to use frequently or for extended periods of time it is probably most convenient to assign them static IP addresses or configure the VMware DHCP server to always assign the same IP address to each of these virtual machines Configuring the DHCP Server on a Linux Host On a Linux host you configure the host only DHCP server by editing the DHCP configuration file for VMnet1 etc vmware vmnet1 dhcp dhcp conf To configure the DHCP server for the NAT network edit the configuration file for VMnet8 etc vmware vmnet8 dhcp dhcp conf Editing the DHCP server configuration file requires information that is best obtained directly from the DHCP server documentation Consult the manual pages dhcpd 8 and dhcpd conf 8 Configuring the DHCP Server on a Windows Host On a Windows host you configure the DHCP server using the Virtual Network Editor Edit gt Virtual Network Settings gt DHCP Virtual Network Editor Summary Automatic Bridging Host Virtual Network Mapping Host Virtual Adapters DHCP NAT DHCP Virtual Network Subnet Netmask Description 255 255 255 0 VMnet8 192 168 177 0 255 255 255 0 vmnet8 DHCP service Service status Started Service request Select the virtual network for which you want to change settings and click Properties DHCP Settings VMnet host Subnet Netmask Start IP address 192 168 224 128 End IP address 192 168
62. move them into a directory of the same name and same position relative to the location of the virtual machine If for some reason you are not moving a file make sure you do not have any relative or absolute paths pointing to that file Use the Virtual Machine Control Panel and check to see if your virtual machine is pointing to the correct location for files you do not move In the Virtual Machine Control Panel select each device and be sure that any devices with associated files are pointed to the correct files Also check the Options tab to be sure the location for the redo log file is correct In addition check to see you do not have any absolute paths pointing to any files you are Moving Note If your virtual machine is using disks in undoable mode it is best to commit or discard the changes when you shut down the guest operating system under VMware Workstation 3 If you cannot commit or discard the changes to your disk read Considerations for Moving Disks in Undoable Mode on page 126 Start VMware Workstation 4 and open the virtual machine you just moved Choose File gt Open then browse to the virtual machine s configuration vmx file 123 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Moving an Older Virtual Machine If you have created a virtual machine using VMware Workstation 2 you must upgrade the virtual hardware the first time you run it under VMware Workstation 4 Once you have done this you can follow the instructio
63. often the easiest way to give your virtual machine access to that network 189 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual NAT also allows you to connect to a TCP IP network using a Token Ring adapter on the host computer If you use NAT your virtual machine does not have its own IP address on the external network Instead a separate private network is set up on the host computer Your virtual machine gets an address on that network from the VMware virtual DHCP server The VMware NAT device passes network data between one or more virtual machines and the external network It identifies incoming data packets intended for each virtual machine and sends them to the correct destination If you select NAT the virtual machine can use many standard TCP IP protocols to connect to other machines on the external network For example you can use HTTP to browse Web sites FTP to transfer files and Telnet to log on to other computers In the default configuration computers on the external network cannot initiate connections to the virtual machine That means for example that the default configuration does not let you use the virtual machine as a Web server to send Web pages to computers on the external network If you make some other selection in the New Virtual Machine Wizard and later decide you want to use NAT you can make that change in the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings For details see Changing the Networking Con
64. on the addresses of the host only adapters on the host computer In the first virtual machine s networking configuration the default router address should be the IP address for the host only adapter connected to VMnet1 In the second virtual machine s networking configuration the default router address should be the IP address for the host only adapter connected to VMnet2 If you are running the router software on the third virtual machine set the default router addresses in the first two virtual machines based on those used by the third virtual machine In the first virtual machine s networking configuration the default router address should be the IP address for the third virtual machine s Ethernet adapter connected to VMnet1 In the second virtual machine s networking configuration the default router address should be the IP address for the third virtual machine s Ethernet adapter connected to VMnetz2 At this point you should be able to ping the router machine from virtual machines one and two And if the router software is set up correctly you should be able to communicate between the first and second virtual machines 218 rare US CHAPTER 9 Networking Using Virtual Ethernet Adapters in Promiscuous Mode on a Linux Host VMware Workstation does not allow the virtual Ethernet adapter to go into promiscuous mode unless the user running VMware Workstation has permission to make that setting This follows the standard Linux practice t
65. open virtual machine 1 Do not power on the virtual machine Use the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings to add a second virtual network adapter as described in Changing the Networking Configuration on page 195 Connect the second adapter to Custom VMnet2 Click OK to save the configuration and close the Virtual Machine Control Panel If VMware Workstation is not running start it Open virtual machine 2 Do not power on the virtual machine Use the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings to add a virtual network adapter Connect the adapter to Custom VMnet2 Click OK to save the configuration and close the Virtual Machine Control Panel If VMware Workstation is not running start it Open virtual machine 3 Do not power on the virtual machine Use the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings to add a virtual network adapter Connect the adapter to Custom VMnet2 Use the Virtual Machine Control Panel to add a second virtual network adapter Connect the adapter to Custom VMnet3 Click OK to save the configuration and close the Virtual Machine Control Panel If VMware Workstation is not running start it Open virtual machine 4 Do not power on the virtual machine Use the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings to add a virtual network adapter Connect the adapter to Custom VMnet3 Click OK to save the configur
66. or Server 2003 A virtual disk of either type can be stored on either type of physical hard disk That is the files that make up an IDE virtual disk can be stored on either an IDE hard disk or a SCSI hard disk So can the files that make up a SCSI virtual disk They can also be stored on other types of fast access storage media such as DVD ROM or CD ROM discs A key advantage of virtual disks is their portability Because the virtual disks are stored as files on the host machine or a remote computer you can move them easily to a new location on the same computer or to a different computer You can also use VMware Workstation on a Windows host to create virtual disks then move them to a Linux computer and use them under VMware Workstation for Linux or vice versa For information about moving virtual disks see Moving and Sharing Virtual Machines on page 117 Raw Disk A raw disk directly accesses an existing local disk or partition You can use raw disks if you want VMware Workstation to run one or more guest operating systems from existing disk partitions Raw disks may be set up on both IDE and SCSI devices At this time however booting from an operating system already set up on an existing SCSI disk or partition is not supported The most common use of a raw disk is for converting a dual boot or multiple boot machine so one or more of the existing operating systems can be run inside a virtual machine Caution If you run an operatin
67. or adapters A On the host computer start the Add Remove Hardware Wizard Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt Add Remove Hardware Click Next Select Uninstall Unplug a Device Click Next Select Uninstall a Device Click Next Select VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter then follow the wizard s instructions If you have more than one host only adapter repeat these steps for each of them Uninstall version 2 Note The uninstaller may offer to remove licenses from your registry Do not remove the licenses Reboot your computer Install version 4 Note When you are upgrading with an upgrade serial number the installer checks for the presence of a version 3 license on the computer If it finds no version 3 license it prompts you to enter your version 3 serial number Reboot your computer You may then reconfigure host only networking under VMware Workstation 4 45 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Upgrading on a Linux Host You may upgrade from version 3 to version 4 using the VMware Workstation 4 upgrade product To upgrade from version 2 to version 4 you must have the full VMware Workstation 4 product The Tar Upgrade Process If you used the tar installer to install version 2 or 3 and you plan to use the tar installer for version 4 you do not need to take any special steps to uninstall the older version Just follow the installation instructions Installing VMware Workstation 4 on a Linux Host on page 34
68. permission settings on the host computer For example if you are running VMware Workstation as a user named User the virtual machine can read and write files in the shared folder only if User has permission to read and write them Expiration options for the shared folder You can specify that the folder is always enabled or that it is enabled only during the current working session If you select Disable after this session the shared folder is disabled when you suspend or power off the virtual machine To change the settings for a shared folder on the list click the folder s name to highlight it then click Properties The Properties dialog box appears _ General Name Shared files Host folder C Documents and Settings All Users Doc Attributes M Enabled C Read only C Disable after this session Disable the share the next time the virtual machine is powered off or suspended Cancel Help Change any settings you wish then click OK Note You can use shared folders to share any type of file However Windows shortcuts and Linux symbolic links do not work correctly if you try to use them via shared folders Caution Do not open a file in a shared folder from more than one application at a time For example you should not open the same file using an application on the host operating system and another application in the guest operating system In some circumstances doing so could cause
69. reboot your system several times as it installs the device drivers In some instances Windows may not recognize the CD ROM drive when it prompts you to insert the CD ROM to look for device drivers during the initial hardware detection In such cases you can cancel the installation of the particular device or try pointing to C windows system to search for device drivers on the hard disk Any failed device installations may be performed at a later time after the CD ROM drive is recognized 156 are gimn CHAPTER 7 Using Disks After Windows has installed the virtual hardware and its drivers you can remove the failed devices corresponding to the physical hardware using the Device Manager Control Panel gt System gt Device Manager Select the device then click the Remove button If a device appears in multiple hardware profiles you can select the hardware profile or profiles from which to remove the device If you want to enable the virtual machine s sound adapter to work inside the Windows 9x guest operating system finish the remaining steps in this section then refer to Configuring Sound on page 245 Windows NT guests only After the operating system has finished booting in the virtual machine view the event log to see which physical devices have failed to start properly You can disable them from the Virtual Hardware profile using the Device Manager Control Panel gt Devices If you want to enable the virtual machine s so
70. same host or between hosts Use an existing virtual disk Choose this option to reuse a previously configured disk O Use a physical disk for advanced users Choose this option to give the virtual machine direct access to a local hard disk Select Create a new virtual disk www vmware com 70 CHAPTER 4 Creating a New Virtual Machine Virtual disks are the best choice for most virtual machines They are quick and easy to set up and can be moved to new locations on the same host computer or to different host computers By default virtual disks start as small files on the host computer s hard drive then expand as needed up to the size you specify in the next step The next step also allows you to allocate all the disk space when the virtual disk is created if you wish To use an existing operating system on a physical hard disk a raw disk read Configuring a Dual Boot Computer for Use with a Virtual Machine on page 146 To install your guest operating system directly on an existing IDE disk partition read the reference note Installing an Operating System onto a Raw Partition from a Virtual Machine on page 166 Caution Raw disk configurations are recommended only for expert users Caution If you are using a Windows Server 2003 Windows XP or Windows 2000 host see Do Not Use Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Dynamic Disks as Raw Disks on page 161 To install the guest operating system on a raw
71. that are initiated from outside the NAT network are not transparent However it is possible to configure port forwarding manually on the NAT device so network traffic destined for a certain port can still be forwarded automatically to a virtual machine on the NAT network For details see Advanced NAT Configuration below File sharing of the type used by Windows operating systems and Samba is possible among computers on the NAT network including virtual machines and the host computer If you are using WINS servers on your network a virtual machine using NAT networking can access shared files and folders on the host that are known by the WINS server so long as those shared files and folders are in the same workgroup or domain Advanced NAT Configuration Windows host Configure the NAT device using the Virtual Network Editor Edit gt Virtual Network Settings gt NAT 222 Fico CHAPTER 9 Networking Virtual Network Editor Summary Automatic Bridging Host Virtual Network Mapping Host Virtual Adapters DHCP NAT VMnet host Gateway IP address Netmask NAT service Service status Started Service request Ce Ceres You can stop and start the virtual NAT device by clicking the appropriate buttons To edit NAT settings for a virtual network choose it from the drop down menu then click Edit NAT Settings VMnet host VMnet8 Gateway IP address 492 168 177 2 DNS
72. that communicates with the virtual machine to use the same Unix socket name 12 Power on the virtual machine Connecting Two Virtual Machines You can set up the virtual serial ports in two virtual machines to connect to each other This is useful for example if you want to use an application in one virtual machine to capture debugging information sent from the other virtual machine s serial port www vmMware com 258 CHAPTER 11 Connecting Devices To install a direct serial connection between two virtual machines a server and a client take the following steps Windows Host In the server virtual machine 1 Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings 2 Click Add to start the Add Hardware Wizard 3 Select Serial Port then click Next Add Hardware Wizard Serial Port Type rae What media should this virtual serial port access Sy Serial port Use physical serial port on the host Output to file Output to named pipe 4 Select Output to named pipe then click Next Add Hardware Wizard Specify Named Pipe Which named pipe should this serial port connect to Named pipe pipe com_1 This end is the server The other end is a virtual machine Device status Connect at power on lt Back Finish Cancel 5 Use the default pipe name or enter another pipe name of your choice The pipe name must follow the form pipe lt name
73. the NAT network also sends out additional configuration information that enables the virtual machine to operate automatically This information includes the default gateway and the DNS server In the DHCP response the NAT device instructs the virtual machine to use the IP address lt net gt 2 as the default gateway and DNS server This causes all IP packets destined for the external network and DNS requests to be forwarded to the NAT device DNS on the NAT Network The NAT device acts as a DNS server for the virtual machines on the NAT network Actually the NAT device is a DNS proxy and merely forwards DNS requests from the virtual machines to a DNS server that is known by the host Responses come back to the NAT device which then forwards them to the virtual machines If they get their configuration information from DHCP the virtual machines on the NAT network automatically use the NAT device as the DNS server However the virtual machines can be statically configured to use another DNS server The virtual machines in the private NAT network are not themselves accessible via DNS If you want the virtual machines running on the NAT network to access each other by DNS names you must set up a private DNS server connected to the NAT network External Access from the NAT Network In general any protocol using TCP or UDP can be used automatically by a virtual machine on the NAT network so long as the virtual machine initiates the network co
74. the state of the data on all the virtual machine s disks and whether the virtual machine was powered on powered off or suspended VMware Workstation lets you take a snapshot of a virtual machine at any time and revert to that snapshot at any time You can take a snapshot when a virtual machine is powered on powered off or suspended Suspend Save the current state of a running virtual machine To return a Suspended virtual machine to operation use the resume feature See also Resume Virtual disk A virtual disk is a file or set of files Usually on the host file system that appears as a physical disk drive to a guest operating system These files can be on the host machine or on a remote file system When you configure a virtual machine with a virtual disk you can install a new operating system into the disk file without the need to repartition a physical disk or reboot the host See also Raw disk Virtual machine A virtualized x86 PC environment in which a guest operating system and associated application software can run Multiple virtual machines can operate on the same host machine concurrently Virtual machine configuration The specification of what virtual devices disks memory size etc are present in a virtual machine and how they are mapped to host files and devices Virtual machine configuration file A file containing a virtual machine configuration It is created by the New Virtual Machine Wizard It is
75. to VMnet2 and VMnet3 Assign each adapter an IP address in the range you are using with the virtual network to which it is connected In virtual machine 4 assign an IP address in the range you are using with VMnets 9 Install the necessary application software in each virtual machine 1 94 www vmware com Changing the Networking Configuration Using the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings you can add virtual Ethernet adapters to your virtual machine and change the configuration of existing adapters Adding and Modifying Virtual Network Adapters 7A 8 To change the configuration of an existing virtual network adapter follow these steps ie Virtual Machine Control Panel Hardware 0 ptions Device Summary Device status Memory 224 MB S Hard Disk 1 IDE 0 0 5cp Rom 1 IDE 1 0 Auto detect Floppy 1 Using drive A NIC 1 Bridged Connected directly to the physical network inected Connect at power on Connect to the following network Qus Controller Present O NAT Used to share the host s IP address Audio Default adapter O Host only A private network shared with the host Custom Specific virtual network C Update the snapshot after changing settings To add a new virtual Ethernet adapter follow these steps iF A 3 4 3 6 Be sure the virtual machine to which you want to add the adapter is powered off Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel
76. to share the same BIOS interface used by IDE disks which is required in order to boot all SCSI disks need to have a geometry which is a fabricated value for the number of cylinders sectors and heads on the disk In fact a SCSI disk appears to a computer as a single flat entity from sector 1 up to the highest sector on the disk As a result every SCSI vendor has its own approach to taking the capacity of a SCSI disk and generating a geometry to use for booting The conversion from a given geometry to an absolute sector number depends on the geometry If you have a disk with a boot sector written by a program running on the host and you try to boot that disk inside a virtual machine the boot program can fail if the host geometry does not match the geometry used by the BusLogic virtual SCSI adapter The symptoms are that you see the first part of the boot loader possibly an LI from LILO for example but then the boot either stops or crashes BusLogic uses the following rules for generating disk geometries pe Yea Seco In each case the number of cylinders is calculated by taking the total capacity of the disk and dividing by heads sectors Fortunately for sufficiently big disks practically all vendors use 255 heads and 63 sectors Drivers In contrast to IDE adapters SCSI adapters are not interchangeable and cannot all use the same drivers That is if you have an Adaptec SCSI host adapter in your machine and you remove it
77. to the disk are discarded when you power off or revert to the snapshot Settings for the Snapshot You can also specify what you want VMware Workstation to do with the snapshot any time the virtual machine is powered off To do so go to Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings gt Options gt Snapshot and select one of the choices under When powering off Virtual Machine Control Panel Hardware Options j gt General Gj General Windows XP Professional Disat Power O Shared Folders Enabled Current snapshot amp Guest isolation Drag and drop enabled Created Sun Mar 16 13 38 42 2003 E ad d N IN 3 yee en C Lock this snapshot Prevent future snapshots from being taken When powering off Don t change the snapshot O Revert to the snapshot Update the snapshot O sk me C Update the snapshot after changing settings Options when powering off include Don t change the snapshot leaves the snapshot as it is Revert to the snapshot reverts to the snapshot so the virtual machine always starts in the same state reverting to the snapshot discards changes Update the snapshot takes a new snapshot of the virtual machine state as it was just before you powered off this replaces the previous snapshot Ask me always asks what you want to do with the snapshot when you power off If the virtual machine has no snapshot you can disable the snapshot feature by selecting Disable snapshots If you have a
78. username gt is the user name you want to add Follow the instructions on the screen 3 Log out of the root account exit Using a Samba Server for Both Bridged and Host Only Networks You may use the Samba server of your choice either the existing Samba server from your host operating system s distribution or the one provided with VMware Workstation for both host only and bridged networking To do so you must 236 o omn CHAPTER 9 Networking modify one parameter in the smb conf file You can define the interface parameter so your Samba server serves multiple interfaces An example of this is interface ethO vmnetl This example tells the Samba server that it is to listen to and use both the eth0 and vmnet1 interfaces the interfaces used by bridged and host only networking respectively Using VMware Workstation s Samba with an Existing Installation It may also be possible to run both your existing Samba server and the VMware Workstation Samba server at the same time In order to do this your current Samba server must be version 2 0 6 or higher and must be configured correctly However this approach is not recommended To determine the version of your Samba server run smbd V If you want to try running both Samba servers at the same time use this sample smb conf file as a basis for configuring the regular Samba server on your host computer Sample smb conf for Running Two Samba Servers at the Same Time
79. using 104 Shortcut does not work in shared folder 106 Shortcuts keyboard 115 Shrink virtual disks 99 136 Shut down a virtual machine 108 Size virtual disk 71 virtual machine window 101 smb conf 232 233 237 Snapshot compared to disk modes 179 compared to repeatable resume 179 defined 312 disabling functions 305 files 66 removing 178 updating 178 using 108 virtual machine 176 ways of using 178 what is saved in 176 Sound configuring 245 drivers for Windows 9x and Win dows NT guest operating systems 245 Specifications virtual machine platform 19 Start suspended virtual machine 107 175 virtual machine 96 98 VMware Tools 98 Status bar hide 102 Stop virtual machine 108 Subnet changing settings 198 in NAT configuration 203 on host only network 203 Support technical support resources 24 Suspend defined 312 files 66 virtual machine 107 175 SVGA in a Windows 95 guest on a raw disk 158 in a Windows 98 guest on a raw disk 159 Switch virtual network 186 workspaces in Linux guest 111 System requirements 16 System Restore avoiding conflicts 32 67 135 T Tabs hide 102 Take screen shot of virtual machine 110 Telnet 221 Text cutting copying and pasting 104 Token Ring 190 191 Toolbar hide 102 305 power buttons on 94 Tools installing VMware Tools 77 starting VMware Tools 98 VMware Tools 312 323 324 Trend Micro Virus Buster installation issues 104 Turn off access to Virtual
80. virtual disks with all the space allocated in advance both use flat files that mimic the sequential and random access performance of the underlying disk When a snapshot exists and you have made changes since powering on the virtual machine any access to those changed files performs at a level similar to the performance of a virtual disk that does not have all space allocated in advance If you remove the snapshot performance is again similar to that of the underlying disk Overall if no snapshot exists and you are using raw disks or virtual disks with all the space allocated in advance you see somewhat better performance than that provided by other configurations Disk writes may be slower for virtual disks that do not have all space allocated in advance However you can improve performance for these disks by defragmenting them from the Virtual Machine Control Panel Choose Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings select the disk you want to defragment then click Defragment 288 TT tmiarecom CHAPTER 12 Performance Tuning Remote Disk Access Whenever possible do not use disks that are on remote machines and accessed over the network unless you have a very fast network If you must run disks remotely choose Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings gt Options select General and set the Working directory to a directory on your local hard disk Then take a snapshot After you take the snapshot changes you make are stored locally in the working dir
81. virtual machine To support such installations VMware Workstation makes it possible for you to use a physical IDE disk or partition also known as a raw disk inside a virtual machine Note VMware Workstation supports booting from raw disk partitions only on IDE drives Booting guest operating systems from raw SCSI drives is not supported For a discussion of the issues on a Linux host see Configuring Dual or Multiple Boot SCSI Systems to Run with VMware Workstation on a Linux Host on page 161 Setting up a raw disk configuration for a virtual machine is more complicated than using a virtual disk Virtual disks are recommended unless you have a specific need to run directly from a physical disk or partition Caution Raw disks are an advanced feature and should be configured only by expert users Using the Same Operating System in a Virtual Machine and on the Host Computer You may sometimes want to run an operating system inside a virtual machine and at other times want to run that same installation of the operating system by booting the host computer directly into that operating system If you want to use this approach you must be aware of some special considerations The issues arise because the virtual hardware that the operating system sees when it is running in a virtual machine is different from the physical hardware it sees when it is running directly on the host computer It is as if you were removing the boot drive from one phys
82. want to make on the advanced settings screen click Finish 6 The wizard creates the new virtual disk It appears to your guest operating system as a new blank hard disk Use the guest operating system s tools to partition and format the new drive for use 139 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Adding Raw Disks to a Virtual Machine Use the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings to add a new raw disk to your virtual machine The virtual machine should be powered off before you begin If it is not shut down the guest operating system normally then click Power Off on the VMware Workstation toolbar Caution Raw disks are an advanced feature and should be configured only by expert users 1 Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings and click Add The Add Hardware Wizard guides you through the steps to create your virtual disk 2 Click Hard Disk then click Next Add Hardware Wizard Select a Disk Gx Which disk do you want this drive to use D Disk O Create a new virtual disk virtual disk is composed of one or more files on the host file system which will appear as a single hard disk to the guest operating system Virtual disks can easily be copied or moved on the same host or between hosts Use an existing virtual disk Choose this option to reuse a previously configured disk Use a physical disk for advanced users Choose this option to give the v
83. your serial number the first time you run VMware Workstation i VMware Workstation BESESEGE888 o i sOsuss sen InstallShield Wizard Completed The InstallShield Wizard has successfully installed Y Mware Workstation Click Finish to exit the wizard 11 Click Finish The VMware Workstation software is installed 12 A prompt suggests that you reboot your PC Reboot now to allow VMware Workstation to complete the installation correctly Uninstalling VMware Workstation 4 on a Windows Host To uninstall VMware Workstation 4 use the Add Remove Programs control panel Select the entry for VMware Workstation then click Remove Follow the on screen instructions 33 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 34 Installing VMware Workstation 4 on a Linux Host Getting started with VMware Workstation is simple The key steps are 1 Install the VMware Workstation software as described in this section 2 Start VMware Workstation and enter your serial number You need to do this only once the first time you start VMware Workstation after you install it 3 Create a virtual machine using the New Virtual Machine Wizard See Creating a New Virtual Machine on page 63 4 Install a guest operating system in the new virtual machine You need the installation media CD ROM or floppy disks for your guest operating system See Installing a Guest Operating System and VMware Tools on page 74 5 Install the VMware Tools package in your virtua
84. 03 virtual machine you need a special SCSI driver available from the download section of the VMware Web site at www vmware com download Follow the instructions on the Web site to install the driver Preparing a Windows NT 4 0 Guest Operating System to Use SCSI Devices Generic SCSI devices use the virtual Mylex BusLogic BT KT 958 compatible host bus adapter provided by the virtual machine Some guest operating systems guide you through installing the drivers after you install the first SCSI device in the virtual machine On Windows NT 4 0 however you may need to install the driver manually if it is not already installed for a virtual SCSI disk You should do so before you add a generic SCSI device 279 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual To install the BusLogic driver in a Windows NT 4 0 guest have your Windows NT installation CD available and follow these steps 1 Open the SCSI Adapters control panel Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt SCSI Adapters Click the Drivers tab Click Add In the list of vendors on the left select BusLogic Ce i N In the list of drivers on the right select BusLogic MultiMaster PCI SCSI Host Adapters 6 Click OK 7 Insert the Windows NT CD when you are prompted Click OK 8 Reboot when you are prompted Adding a Generic SCSI Device to a Virtual Machine You can add generic SCSI devices to your virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Control Panel When you set up a generic SCSI dev
85. 1 VMware Workstation gt File Edit Power Snapshot View Windows Help E p A Ee Snapshot Beevers FR ld Favorites X Windows XP Professional Gp Windows XP Professional k eee gt ee m lt val VMware Tools Setup is preparing the InstallShield R Wizard which will guide you through the rest of the setup process Please wait AX You do not have Mware Tools installed 4 Follow the on screen instructions 5 On Windows Server 2003 Windows Me Windows 98 SE and Windows 98 guests the SVGA driver is installed automatically and the guest operating system uses it after it reboots With Windows 2000 and Windows XP guests you do not have to reboot to use the new driver Additional Steps for Some Versions of Windows When Migrating from Old Disk Versions If you are migrating a VMware Workstation 2 disk to VMware Workstation 4 and your guest operating system is Windows NT Windows Me Windows 98 or Windows 95 you need to configure the video driver by hand Instructions open automatically in www vmware com CHAPTER 4 Creating a New Virtual Machine Notepad at the end of the installation process If the Notepad window is hidden bring it to the front by clicking the Notepad button on the Windows taskbar For details see the steps below that correspond to your guest operating system Windows NT Oy i A W NS After installing VMware Tools click Finish The Display Properties dialog box appears
86. 15 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual www vmware com 116 6 Moving and Sharing Virtual Machines CHAPTER 6 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Moving and Sharing Virtual Machines The following sections provide information on how to move your virtual machines from one host to another or elsewhere on the same host plus recommendations on how to share virtual machines with other users Moving a VMware Workstation 4 Virtual Machine on page 119 e Virtual Machines Use Relative Paths on page 119 Preparing Your Virtual Machine for the Move on page 119 Moving a Virtual Machine to a New Host Machine on page 120 Moving a VMware Workstation 3 1 or 3 2 Virtual Machine on page 121 e Virtual Machines May Have Relative or Absolute Paths on page 121 Preparing Your Virtual Machine for the Move on page 121 Moving a Virtual Machine to a New Host Machine on page 122 Moving an Older Virtual Machine on page 124 Preparing Your Virtual Machine for the Move on page 124 Preparing the New Host Machine on page 125 e Considerations for Moving Disks in Undoable Mode on page 126 Sharing Virtual Machines with Other Users on page 128 Note When you move a virtual machine to a new host computer or to a different directory on the same host computer or when you rename a directory in the path to the virtual machine s configuration file VMware Workstation generates a different MAC address for the virtual Ethernet adapter For additional information see Mai
87. 28 Custom NAT and DHCP Configuration on a Windows Host If you are an advanced user on a Windows host computer you may wish to make custom configuration settings by editing the NAT and DHCP configuration files If your host operating system is installed on the C drive the configuration files for NAT and DHCP are in the following locations NAT C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data VMware vmnetnat conf DHCP C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data VMware vmnetdhcp conf Note In VMware Workstation 4 you can change many key NAT and DCHP settings using the Virtual Network Editor Edit gt Virtual Network Settings However if you have made manual changes to the configuration files some or all of those changes may be lost when you use the Virtual Network Editor If you have made manual changes you should make backup copies of the files before changing any settings in the Virtual Network Editor After making changes in the Virtual Network Editor you can copy your manual changes back into the appropriate configuration files Considerations for Using NAT Because NAT requires that every packet sent and received from virtual machines is in the NAT network there is an unavoidable performance penalty Our experiments show that the penalty is minor for dial up and DSL connections and performance is adequate for most VMware Workstation uses NAT is not perfectly transparent It does not normally allow connections to
88. 310 host only subnet 203 Internet connection sharing 191 IP forwarding 206 207 IP packet leaks 205 207 locking out access to settings 303 MAC address 207 NAT 189 220 311 NAT as firewall 227 NAT device 186 NAT subnet 203 packet filtering 207 promiscuous mode on a Linux host 219 routing between two host only net works 215 routing on a Linux host 209 Samba 231 second bridged network on a Linux host 210 switch 186 Token Ring 190 191 troubleshooting DHCP on a Linux host 209 two host only networks 211 virtual DHCP server 190 191 virtual Ethernet adapter 187 Virtual Network Editor 196 200 204 312 www vmware comM virtual switch 186 Network address translation defined 311 See NAT New Virtual Machine Wizard 67 131 311 Newsgroups 24 NIC adding and configuring virtual Ethernet adapter 195 promiscuous mode on a Linux host 219 Nonpersistent mode compared to snapshot 179 180 Novell NetWare supported guest operating systems 23 VMware Tools for 85 nvram 65 O Operating system guest 310 host 311 installing guest 74 supported guest 22 supported Linux host 17 supported Windows host 17 P Packet filtering 207 leaks 205 207 Parallel ports and lomega Zip drives 253 and the Linux kernel 34 250 configuring on a Linux host 251 in a virtual machine 250 installing in virtual machines 250 Partition existing 310 Passwords and administrative lockout 303 Samba password file 235
89. 74 Installing Windows XP as a Guest Operating System 75 Installing VMware Tools 77 VMware Tools for Windows Guests 77 VMware Tools for Linux Guests 81 VMware Tools for FreeBSD Guests 83 Installing VMware Tools in a NetWare Virtual Machine 85 VMware Tools Configuration Options 86 Using the System Console to Configure VMware Tools in a NetWare Guest Operating System 88 Running VMware Workstation 91 Overview of the VMware Workstation Window 93 Starting a Virtual Machine on a Windows Host 96 Starting a Virtual Machine on a Linux Host 98 Checking the Status of VMware Tools 98 Using Full Screen Mode 99 Using Quick Switch Mode 100 Taking Advantage of Multiple Monitors 100 Fitting the VMware Workstation Window to the Virtual Machine 101 Fitting a Windows Guest Operating System s Display to the VMware Workstation Window 1 Simplifying the Screen Display 1 Installing New Software in the Virtual Machine 1 Cutting Copying and Pasting Text 1 Using Shared Folders 1 Using Drag and Drop 107 Suspending and Resuming Virtual Machines 1 Taking and Reverting to a Snapshot 1 Shutting Down a Virtual Machine 1 Adding Configuring and Removing Devices in a Virtual Machine 1 Connecting and Disconnecting Removable Devices 1 wWwww vmMware comM Creating a Screen Shot of a Virtual Machine Setting Preferences for VMware Workstation Setting Application Settings for VMware Workstation Command Reference Keyboard Shortcuts Moving and Sharing Virtu
90. 91 introduce you to some of the things you can do with VMware Workstation and guide you through the key steps for installing the software and putting it to work Later chapters provide in depth reference material for getting the most out of the sophisticated features of VMware Workstation 1 2 www vmware comM CHAPTER 1 Introduction and System Requirements Powerful Virtual Machine Software for the Technical Professional Using VMware Workstation you can run multiple operating systems including Microsoft Windows Linux and Novell NetWare simultaneously on a single PC in fully networked portable virtual machines With more than 1 4 million users VMware Workstation has revolutionized software development by simplifying and accelerating the process so dramatically that it has become a corporate standard for developers and IT professionals worldwide File Edit Power Snapshot View Windows Help i Ol gt B E snapshot fe Revert ma Favorites B Windows GB Windows XP Professional r s 7 P y GL Windows 2000 Professional f F VMware Enterprise Class Virtual Machine Software Microsoft Internet Explorer X windows XP Professional M yrs lige er Red Hat Linux 6 0 l inux P a Ef Red Hat Linux 8 0 Gy Mandrake Linux 8 1 ack A A JO search eg Favortes Meda 7 2 i x 6 My Documents 4 My Recent Documen ts gt re My Pict r GI ie Pictures Enterprise class virtual 2 My Music machine
91. AudioPCI 97 sound device Click Configure Note When using Kudzu do not migrate the existing network configuration If you try to do so you see a blank screen Instead click No when asked if you want to migrate the existing network configuration Upgrading the Virtual Hardware in an Existing Virtual Machine On the File menu choose Upgrade Virtual Hardware A dialog box appears warning that the upgrade process cannot be reversed Click Yes to continue then follow the on screen directions Note Ifyou are upgrading a virtual machine that runs from a physical disk rather than a virtual disk you may see the following error message while VMware Workstation is upgrading the virtual hardware Unable to upgrade lt drivename gt One of the supplied parameters is invalid You may safely click OK to continue the upgrade process Virtual Hardware Upgrade Is Irreversible e The process of upgrading the virtual hardware is irreversible and makes the disks attached to this virtual machine incompatible with Workstation 2 or 3 You should make backup copies of your virtual disks before starting the upgrade 57 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Using Virtual Machines Created with Version 2 under Version 4 If you use an existing VMware Workstation 2 virtual machine under VMware Workstation 4 the virtual hardware is upgraded automatically The upgrade gives you access to new features but the process is one way you can
92. B Primary slave C Secondary master D Secondary slave If you have multiple SCSI drives configured on a system the VMware BIOS normally attempts to boot them in the order of the SCSI device number If you have both SCSI and IDE drives configured the VMware BIOS normally attempts to boot SCSI drives followed by IDE drives in the order described above The boot sequence can be changed in the Boot menu of the virtual machine s Phoenix BIOS After powering on the virtual machine press F2 during the BIOS boot in the virtual machine to enter the BIOS setup menu 8 Power on the virtual machine Click the Power On button The virtual machine starts runs the Phoenix BIOS then boots from the master boot record MBR Choose the target operating system from the list of options offered by the boot manager 9 Remember that your virtual machine hardware environment which the guest operating system is about to run in for the first time probably differs significantly from the physical hardware of your host computer For Windows guest operating systems Plug and Play reconfigures Windows Set up your virtual hardware profile with the devices found and configured by Plug and Play See Setting Up Hardware Profiles in Virtual Machines on page 154 for more information 10 Install VMware Tools in your guest operating system Warning If you take a snapshot while using your raw disk you must either revert to the snapshot or remove the snapshot
93. Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings Click Add The Add Hardware Wizard starts Select Network Adapter Click Next Select the network type you want to use Bridged NAT Host only or Custom Ifyou select Custom choose the VMnet network you want to use from the drop down list Note Although VMnet0 VMnet1 and VMnet8 are available in this list they are normally used for bridged host only and NAT configurations respectively Special steps are required to make them available for use in custom configurations You should choose one of the other switches Click Finish The new adapter is added Click OK to save your configuration and close the Virtual Machine Control Panel Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings CHAPTER 9 Networking 195 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 196 2 Select the adapter you want to modify 3 Select the network type you want to use Bridged NAT Host only or Custom 4 Ifyou select Custom choose the VMnet virtual network you want to use for the network from the drop down list 5 Click OK to save your changes and close the Virtual Machine Control Panel 6 Be sure the guest operating system is configured to use an appropriate IP address on the new network If the guest is using DHCP release and renew the lease If the IP address is set statically be sure the guest has an address on the correct virtual network Configuring Bridged Networking Optio
94. HAPTER 11 Connecting Devices 271 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual a CN a a CT a a S C a a C fee ree fore C CC ee S C a a C a a C a a oe paw frere eraron tina oe E oad C a C a C ons a a I ins fee ins fearon mew E C The 84 key keyboard has a Sys Req key on the numeric pad Sys Req numeric pad 0x054 y 272 o S CHAPTER 11 Connecting Devices Keyboards outside the U S usually have an extra key often lt gt or lt gt next to the left shift key 273 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Using USB Devices in a Virtual Machine VMware Workstation 4 provides a two port USB 1 1 controller You can use up to two USB devices in your virtual machine if both your host operating system and your guest operating system support USB If your host computer supports USB 2 0 devices you can use those devices in the virtual machine Note Windows NT and Linux kernels older than 2 2 17 do not support USB Although your host operating system must support USB you do not need to install device specific drivers for your USB devices in the host operating system if you want to use those devices only in the virtual machine On a Windows 2000 host computer with USB 2 0 support be sure you are using the Microsoft USB 2 0 driver for the USB controller Third party USB 2 0 drivers such as those provided by some motherboard manufacturers are not supported For notes on replacing the third party drivers
95. Help a ii D Ed Snapshot Ry Revert H E X windows XP Professional Windows 2000 Professional Red Hat Linux 8 0 Windows 2000 Professional Wi n dows XP P rofessi o n a l Linux E WMywareWvMsiinxPProWvindows XP Professional vmx GJ Red Hat Linux 8 0 Suspended Summary Gy Mandrake Linux 8 1 gt Start this virtual machine SB memory 224 MB Edit virtual machine settings Go Hard Disk 1 IDE 0 0 5cp Rom 1 IDE 1 0 Auto detect Floppy 1 Using drive A nc 1 Bridged Notes Screenshot Operating system installed No applications installed 2 Select the name of the virtual machine you want to use in the Favorites list at the left of the Workstation window If the virtual machine you want to use is not shown there choose File gt Open and browse to the configuration vmx file for the virtual machine you want to use On a Linux host a virtual machine created with an earlier VMware product may have a configuration file with a c g extension To add that virtual machine to the Favorites list so you can open it easily the next time you want to use it choose File gt Add lt virtual machine name gt to Favorites Note By default VMware Workstation 4 stores virtual machines in the My Documents folder of the user who is logged on when the virtual machine is created On Windows Server 2003 Windows XP and Windows 2000 the default folder is C Documents and Settings lt username gt My Documents My Virtual Machines l
96. Host Configuring Dual or Multiple Boot SCSI Systems to Run with VMware Workstation on a Linux Host on page 161 Other Uses of Raw Disks It is also possible to install a guest operating system on a raw disk when you plan to use that disk only within a virtual machine For details on setting up a such a configuration see Installing an Operating System onto a Raw Partition from a Virtual Machine on page 166 Configuring Dual or Multiple Boot Systems to Run with VMware Workstation VMware Workstation uses description files to control access to each raw IDE device on the system These description files contain access privilege information that controls a virtual machine s access to certain partitions on the disks This mechanism prevents users from accidentally running the host operating system again as a guest or running a guest operating system that the virtual machine was not configured to use The description file also prevents accidental corruption of raw disk partitions by badly behaved operating systems or applications Use the New Virtual Machine Wizard to configure VMware Workstation to use existing raw disk partitions The wizard guides you though creating a configuration for a new virtual machine including configuring the raw disk description files Typically you www vmMware com 148 CHAPTER 7 Using Disks rerun the wizard to create a separate configuration for each guest operating system installed on a raw partition If a boo
97. Host on page 289 e VMware Workstation on a Linux Host on page 290 Memory Usage Notes on page 292 e Virtual Machine Memory Size on page 292 Reserved Memory on page 293 e Using More Than 1GB of Memory on a Linux Host on page 294 Improving Performance for Guest Operating Systems on page 296 e Windows 95 and Windows 98 Guest Operating System Performance Tips on page 296 e Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Guest Operating System Performance Tips on page 298 Linux Guest Operating System Performance Tips on page 300 284 www vmware comM CHAPTER 12 Performance Tuning Configuring and Maintaining the Host Computer You may see slower virtual machine performance if the physical disk that holds the virtual machine s working directory or the physical disk that holds the virtual disk files is badly fragmented By default the working directory holds the virtual disk files and is on the host computer If you have customized the virtual machine configuration you may have placed the working directory or the virtual disk files on a different physical computer Fragmentation of the host disk can affect any or all of the following The files that hold a virtual disk The files that store newly saved data when you have a snapshot The files that hold information used in suspending and resuming a virtual machine If you are experiencing slow disk performance in the virtual machine or if you want to improve the speed of suspend and res
98. IDE disk select Existing IDE Disk Partition To use a raw SCSI disk add it to the virtual machine later with the Virtual Machine Control Panel Booting from a raw SCSI disk is not supported For a discussion of some of the issues involved in using a raw SCSI disk see Configuring Dual or Multiple Boot SCSI Systems to Run with VMware Workstation on a Linux Host on page 161 12 Specify the capacity of the virtual disk New Virtual Machine Wizard Specify Disk Capacity ton Rane How large do you want this disk to be Sy Disk capacity Virtual disk files are quite small at first then grow as you add files to them This virtual disk can never be larger than the maximum capacity that you set here Disk size GB 402 C Allocate all disk space now By allocating the full capacity of the virtual disk you enhance performance of your virtual machine However the disk will take longer to create and there must be enough space on the host s physical disk IF you do not allocate disk space now your virtual disk files will start small then become larger as you add applications files and data to your virtual machine C Split disk into 2 GB files Enter the size of the virtual disk that you wish to create If you wish select Allocate all disk space now Allocating all the space at the time you create the virtual disk gives somewhat better performance but it requires as much disk space as the size you specify for the virtual disk
99. LO and display the normal LILO prompt Configuring a Windows Host Use the following steps to run a guest operating system from a raw disk Note If you use a Windows host s IDE disk in a raw disk configuration you must not configure it as the slave on the secondary IDE channel if the master on that channel is a CD ROM drive 1 Ifyou are running a Windows guest operating system read Setting Up Hardware Profiles in Virtual Machines on page 154 You should boot the guest operating system natively on the computer and create a hardware profile for the virtual machine before proceeding 2 Create a separate configuration for each guest operating system 149 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual To configure a virtual machine to run from a raw disk or disk partition start the New Virtual Machine Wizard File gt New gt New Virtual Machine and select Custom New Virtual Machine Wizard Select a Disk Which disk do you want this drive to use Disk Create a new virtual disk virtual disk is composed of one or more files on the host file system which will appear as a single hard disk to the guest operating system Virtual disks can easily be copied or moved on the same host or between hosts Use an existing virtual disk Choose this option to reuse a previously configured disk Use a physical disk for advanced users Choose this option to give the virtual machine direct access to a local hard disk 3 When you re
100. M or Floppy Drive to an Image File You can use the Virtual Machine Control Panel to connect an existing virtual CD ROM or floppy drive to an image file You can connect a virtual CD ROM drive to an ISO image file Connecting to an ISO Image File l si Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings and select the DVD CD ROM drive you want to connect to the image file Select Use ISO Image and enter the path and filename for the image file or click Browse to navigate to the file Click OK to save the configuration and close the Virtual Machine Control Panel Connecting to a Floppy Image File l Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings and select the floppy drive you want to connect to an image file 2 Type the path and filename for the floppy image file you want to use or click a Browse to navigate to the file If you want to create a new image file click Create Use the default filename and folder or change them as you wish Click Finish CHAPTER 7 Using Disks 145 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Configuring a Dual Boot Computer for Use with a Virtual Machine Many users install VMware Workstation on a dual boot or multiple boot computer so they can run one or more of the existing operating systems in a virtual machine If you are doing this you may want to use the existing installation of an operating system rather than reinstall it in a
101. Machine Settings gt Options gt Snapshot Under When powering off select Revert to the snapshot If you want the virtual machine to be suspended when you launch it suspend the virtual machine before saving the snapshot Similarly if you want the virtual machine to be powered on or powered off when you launch it be sure it is powered on or powered off when you take the Snapshot The Snapshot and Legacy Disk Modes If you are familiar with the disk modes used in earlier versions of VMware Workstation you can use the snapshot to achieve equivalent results Persistent mode Do not take a snapshot Undoable mode Take a snapshot when you begin your working session To discard all work done during the session revert to the snapshot To commit the work done during the session take a new snapshot at the end of the working session To keep the work done during a session without committing it leave the original snapshot unchanged Nonpersistent mode Be sure the virtual machine is in the state you want it Power off the virtual machine Take a snapshot Go to Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings gt Options gt Snapshot Under When powering off select Revert to snapshot Note In earlier versions of VMware Workstation disk modes had to be set individually for each disk The snapshot introduced in VMware Workstation 4 applies by default to the entire virtual machine including all disks attached to the virtual machine The Snapshot
102. Manually remove the SVGA driver 7 Restart Windows 95 8 Again you see a number of Plug and Play messages Click Cancel for those listing the following devices Standard host CPU bridge PCI bridge and PCI Universal bus 9 A VMware SVGA Il adapter is detected and Windows installs it 10 Restart Windows 95 11 Once again you see a number of Plug and Play messages Again click Cancel for those listing the following devices Standard host CPU bridge PCI bridge and PCI Universal bus 12 The SVGA driver should be working correctly 13 Install the new version of VMware Tools See Installing VMware Tools on page 77 for details 60 www vmware comM CHAPTER 3 Upgrading VMware Workstation Check Windows 2000 Guest Operating System Selection If your guest operating system is Windows 2000 update the setting in the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings gt Options to reflect the specific version of Windows 2000 you are running 61 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 62 Twi A Creating a New Virtual Machine CHAPTER 4 63 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Preparing to Run a Virtual Machine The following sections describe how to create a new virtual machine and install VMware Tools Setting Up a New Virtual Machine on page 65 e What s in a Virtual Machine on page 65 e Simple Steps to a New Virtual Machine on page 66 Installing a Guest Operating System and VMware Tools on page 74
103. Network Adapter and select Custom VMnet2 from the drop down list on the right If no network adapter is shown in the list of devices click Add then use the Add Hardware Wizard to add an adapter Linux host Click the sign to expand the Ethernet Adapters list and select the first adapter From the Connection Type drop down list on the right select Custom In the VMnet field tyoe dev vmnet2 If the list of devices indicates the adapter is not installed click Install If you plan to run the router software on your host computer you can skip the next section Virtual Machine 3 Connected to Both Host Only Interfaces If you plan to run the router software on a virtual machine set up a third virtual machine for that purpose 1 Create the virtual machine using the New Virtual Machine Wizard or use an existing virtual machine Launch VMware Workstation and open the virtual machine Edit the configuration using the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings Windows host Select the first network adapter in the list of devices and select Host only VMnet1 from the drop down list on the right Select the second network adapter in the list of devices then select Custom VMnet2 from the drop down list on the right If you need to add one or more network adapters click Add then use the Add Hardware Wizard to add an adapter Linux host Click the sign to expand the Ethernet Adapters list and selec
104. Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings Click Add to start the Add Hardware Wizard Select Serial Port then click Next 2 3 4 s Select Output to named pipe then click Next In the Path field enter tmp lt socket gt or another Unix socket name of your choice The pipe name must be the same on both server and client Select This end is the client Select The other end is a virtual machine By default the device status setting is Connect at power on You may deselect this setting if you wish Click Advanced if you want to configure this serial port to use polled mode This option is of interest primarily to developers who are using debugging tools that communicate over a serial connection For more information see Special Configuration Options for Advanced Users on page 262 Click Finish then click OK to save your configuration and close the Virtual Machine Control Panel 261 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Special Configuration Options for Advanced Users Two special configuration options are available for serial connections between a virtual machine and the host or between two virtual machines These options are of interest primarily to developers who are using debugging tools that communicate over a serial connection Improving CPU Performance when Debugging The first option must be set in the Virtual Machine Control Panel This option is useful when the serial port i
105. Operating System Installation Guide available from the VMware Web site or from the Help menu Operating systems that are not listed are not supported for use in a VMware Workstation virtual machine For the most recent list of supported guest operating systems see the support section of the VMware Web site www vmware com support Microsoft Windows Windows Server 2003 Web Edition Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 1 listed versions also supported with no service pack Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 1 2 or 3 Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 1 2 or 3 Windows 2000 Advanced Server Service Pack 3 listed versions also Supported with no service pack Windows NT Workstation 4 0 Service Pack 6a Windows NT Server 4 0 Service Pack 6a Windows NT 4 0 Terminal Server Edition Service Pack 6 Windows Me Windows 98 including all Customer Service Packs and Windows 98 SE Windows 95 including Service Pack 1 and all OSR releases Windows for Workgroups 3 11 Windows 3 1 Microsoft MS DOS MS DOS 6 x Linux Mandrake Linux 8 2 9 0 Red Hat Linux 7 0 7 1 7 2 7 3 8 0 9 0 Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2 1 SUSE LINUX 7 3 SLES 7 SLES 7 patch 280 8 1 B2 SLES 8 Turbolinux Server 7 0 Server 8 0 Workstation 8 0 22 www vmMware com CHAPTER 1 Introduction and System Requirements Novell NetWare NetWare 5 1 6 F
106. Or download DMACHECK EXE from the Microsoft Web site support microsoft com support kb articles Q191 7 74 ASP Click the Enabled option for the IDE controller and channel configured for the virtual disk Typically this is channel 0 only unless you have the virtual machine configured with multiple virtual disks and no virtual DVD CD ROM drive As noted above you should not enable DMA on an IDE channel with a virtual DVD CD ROM drive attached CHAPTER 7 Using Disks 171 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 172 Fico G Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine CHAPTER 8 173 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine VMware Workstation 4 offers two ways to preserve the state of a virtual machine The following sections describe these features and help you understand which is appropriate in particular situations Using Suspend and Resume on page 175 Using the Snapshot on page 176 e What Is Captured by the Snapshot on page 176 e Settings for the Snapshot on page 177 Updating the Snapshot When You Change Virtual Machine Settings on page 1 8 e Removing the Snapshot on page 178 e Ways of Using the Snapshot on page 178 e The Snapshot and Legacy Disk Modes on page 179 e The Snapshot and Repeatable Resume on page 179 e The Snapshot and Legacy Virtual Machines on page 180 e The Snapshot and the Virtual Machine s Hard Disks on page 180 e The Snapshot and Other Activity in the
107. Raw Disk 158 Setting Up the SVGA Video Driver for Use with a Windows 98 Guest Operating System Booted from a Raw Disk 159 Do Not Use Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Dynamic Disks as Raw Disks 161 Configuring Dual or Multiple Boot SCSI Systems to Run with VMware Workstation on a Linux Host 161 Installing an Operating System onto a Raw Partition from a Virtual Machine _166 Configuring a Windows Host 166 Configuring a Linux Host 169 Disk Performance in Windows NT Guests on Multiprocessor Hosts 171 Improving Performance 171 Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine 173 Using Suspend and Resume 175 Using the Snapshot 176 What Is Captured by the Snapshot 176 Settings for the Snapshot 177 Updating the Snapshot When You Change Virtual Machine Settings ___ 178 Removing the Snapshot 178 Ways of Using the Snapshot 178 The Snapshot and Legacy Disk Modes 179 The Snapshot and Repeatable Resume 179 The Snapshot and Legacy Virtual Machines 180 The Snapshot and the Virtual Machine s Hard Disks 180 The Snapshot and Other Activity in the Virtual Machine 181 Networking 183 Components of the Virtual Network 186 Common Networking Configurations 188 Bridged Networking 188 Network Address Translation NAT 189 Host Only Networking 190 Custom Networking Configurations 192 Changing the Networking Configuration 195 Adding and Modifying Virtual Network Adapters 195 WWwWw vmMware comM Configuring Bridged Networking Options on a Windows Host Ena
108. Shared Folders Test files You can map a shared folder to a drive letter just as you would with a network share Note To see shared folders displayed in this way you must update VMware Tools in the virtual machine to the current version If your guest operating system has the version of VMware Tools that shipped with VMware Workstation 4 0 shared folders appear as folders on a designated drive letter In a Linux virtual machine shared folders appear under mnt hgfs So the shared folder in this example would appear as mnt hgfs Test files To add a new shared folder to the list click Add On a Windows host a wizard guides you through the process On a Linux host a dialog box appears Enter the required information then click OK Provide the following information The path on the host to the directory you want to share Type in the full path or browse to the directory The name for the directory This is the name that appears inside the virtual machine 105 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Whether the shared folder is enabled You may want to add a folder to the list without enabling it immediately You can then enable the folder at any time by clicking its name in this list clicking Properties and enabling the folder in the Properties dialog box Access options for the shared folder You can give the current virtual machine read only access or read write access Access to files in the shared folder is also governed by
109. This file is the recommended smb conf file for your normal Samba server if you want to run it concurrently which we don t advise with the VMware Samba server Your normal samba server should be at least v 2 0 6 Note that you will need to insert specific information for your system at several points indicated in the file by lt text in angle brackets gt Larmor samba server configuration Global settings global Identity Allow several Samba servers on the same machine interfaces lt your real subnet gt lt your real netmask gt bind interfaces only yes Workgroup the host belongs to workgroup VMware SMB name of the host the hostname by default netbios name lt your Windows name gt Description of the host server string Linux running Samba 2 0 6 1 237 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Access Allow connections from hosts allow lt your real subnet gt lt your real netmask gt Authentication scheme security user encrypt passwords yes Options Automatically load the printer list from etc printcap by default load printers yes Gives better performance socket options TCP_NODELAY SO _RCVBUF 8192 SO _SNDBUF 8192 Files and directories Max log size in KB max log size 1024 Locks lock directory var samba SMB passwords smb passwd file etc samba smbpasswd Name browsing Allow the host to participate in master browser
110. Timeout for NBNS queries nbnsRetries 3 Number of retries for each NBNS query nbdsTimeout 3 Timeout for NBDS queries The incomingtcp Section This section is used to configure TCP port forwarding for NAT In this section you can assign a port number to an IP address and port number on a virtual machine The following line shows the format used in this section 8887 1925168 27 2126221 This example creates a mapping from port 8887 on the host to the IP address 192 168 27 128 and port 21 When this mapping is set and an external machine connects to the host at port 8887 the network packets are automatically forwarded to port 21 the standard port for FTP on the virtual machine with IP address 192 168 27 128 225 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual The incomingudp Section This section is used to configure UDP port forwarding for NAT In this section you can assign a port number to an IP address and port number on a virtual machine The following line shows the format used in this section It illustrates a way to forward X server traffic from the host port 6000 to the virtual machine s port 6001 6000 192 168 27 128 6001 This example creates a mapping from port 6000 on the host to the IP address 192 168 27 128 and port 6001 When this mapping is set and an external machine connects to the host at port 6000 the network packets are automatically forwarded to port 6001 on the virtual machine with IP address 192 168 27 1
111. Upgrading VMware Workstation on page 39 When you revert to a snapshot you discard all changes made to the virtual machine since you took the snapshot Use the Snapshot and Revert buttons on the Workstation toolbar to take a snapshot and revert to it later You can take a new snapshot at any time When you do so you replace the previous Snapshot You can have only one active snapshot at a time What Is Captured by the Snapshot The snapshot captures the entire state of the virtual machine at the time you take the snapshot This includes The state of all the virtual machine s disks The contents of the virtual machine s memory The virtual machine settings When you revert to the snapshot you return all these items to the state they were in at the time you took the snapshot Note In certain special purpose configurations you may want to exclude one or more of the virtual machine s disks from the snapshot To exclude a disk from the www vmMware com 176 CHAPTER 8 Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine snapshot choose Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings select the drive you want to exclude then click Advanced On the advanced settings screen select Independent You have the following options for an independent disk Persistent changes are immediately and permanently written to the disk All changes to an independent disk in persistent mode remain even when you revert to the snapshot Nonpersistent changes
112. VMware Network Configuration dialog box click OK 199 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Enabling Disabling Adding and Removing Host Virtual Adapters When you install VMware Workstation two network adapters are added to the configuration of your host operating system one that allows the host to connect to the host only network and one that allows the host to connect to the NAT network If you are not using these adapters you may wish to remove them users on Windows hosts can choose to disable the adapters instead of removing them The presence of these adapters has a slight performance cost because broadcast packets must go to the extra adapters On Windows networks browsing your network may be slower than usual And in some cases these adapters interact with the host computer s networking configuration in undesirable ways Disabling a Host Virtual Adapter on a Windows Host Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Hosts Use the Virtual Network Editor to disable any unwanted adapters 1 Choose Edit gt Virtual Network Settings gt Host Virtual Adapters Virtual Network Editor Summary Automatic Bridging Host Virtual Network Mapping Host Virtual Adapters DHCP NAT Network Adapter Virtual Network Status VMware Network Adapter YMnett BY VMware Network Adapter YMnet8 VMnet8 Enabled Disable adapter Add new adapter Remove adapter oe 2 Select the adapter you want to disable
113. Virtual Machine on page 181 1 74 www vmware comM CHAPTER 8 Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine Using Suspend and Resume The suspend and resume feature is most useful when you want to save the current state of your virtual machine then pick up work later with the virtual machine in the same state it was when you stopped Once you resume and do additional work in the virtual machine there is no way to return to the state the virtual machine was in at the time you suspended To preserve the state of the virtual machine so you can return to the same state repeatedly take a snapshot For details see Using the Snapshot on page 176 The speed of the suspend and resume operations depends on how much data has changed while the virtual machine has been running In general the first suspend operation takes a bit longer than later suspend operations do When you suspend a virtual machine a file with a vmss extension is created This file contains the entire state of the virtual machine When you resume the virtual machine its state is restored from the vmss file To suspend a virtual machine 1 If your virtual machine is running in full screen mode return to window mode by pressing the Ctrl Alt key combination 2 Click Suspend on the VMware Workstation toolbar 3 When VMware Workstation has completed the suspend operation it is safe to exit VMware Workstation File gt Exit To resume a virtual machine that you hav
114. Windows host and as a Host Only Interface on a Linux host It allows you to communicate between your host computer and the virtual machines on that host computer The host virtual adapter is used in host only and NAT configurations The host virtual adapter is not connected to any external network unless you set up special software on the host computer a proxy server for example to connect the host only adapter to the physical network adapter The software that creates the host virtual adapter is installed when you install VMware Workstation on a Linux host you must choose to make host only networking available to your virtual machines A host virtual adapter is then created automatically when you boot the host computer You can set up additional host virtual adapters as needed NAT device The NAT network address translation device allows you to connect your virtual machines to an external network when you have only one IP network 186 nn on address on the physical network and that address is used by the host computer You can for example use NAT to connect your virtual machines to the Internet through a dial up connection on the host computer or through the host computer s Ethernet adapter or wireless Ethernet adapter NAT is also useful when you need to connect to a non Ethernet network such as Token Ring or ATM The NAT device is set up automatically when you install VMware Workstation On a Linux host you must choos
115. Workstation 4 Powerful Virtual Machine Software for the Technical Professional User s Manual JOUUDOUUUOUUUUOVUOUUUUULU HOOCH a Oa GOGG BUY VOUOOOOUUOUUUUUUUOUOUUU HOOOURCUOUOUUUNUUOUUUOOUOUU UHSBeOUOaeDTUseNUoaeNnUuNaenvuaeuda VHOOOUOOUUUNUuUuUuUuUuUuUUoUuuUU VOUOUUOOUUOUOUUUUUUUOUUUU HOeesOonunenunununuaseganuuawnwa HSGseeegaaggasestse ase Gteaggaeug BUUUUSEAOVDVDAUVDUUVUEAEBUUULU E vmware VMware Inc 3145 Porter Drive Palo Alto CA 94304 www vmware com Please note that you can always find the most up to date technical docu mentation on our Web site at http www vmware com support The VMware Web site also provides the latest product updates Copyright 1998 2003 VMware Inc All rights reserved Protected by one or more of U S Patent Nos 6 397 242 and 6 496 847 patents pending VMware the VMware boxes logo GSX Server and ESX Server are trademarks of VMware Inc Microsoft Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies Revision 20030826 Version 4 0 2 Item WS ENG Q303 001 Table of Contents Introduction and System Requirements Powerful Virtual Machine Software for the Technical Professional What s New in Version 4 New in Version 4 Host System Requirements Virtual Machine Specifications Supported Guest Operating Systems Technic
116. Workstation configuration file it would move if you were running Solaris and most likely Solaris would not boot The precise dependencies in various operating systems can be complex That is why it is safest to configure SCSI raw disks in a virtual machine using the same SCSI ID as they use on the host 165 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Installing an Operating System onto a Raw Partition from a Virtual Machine In some situations you may want to install a guest operating system directly on a physical disk or partition known as a raw disk even if you do not need to boot that disk on the host outside of the virtual machine It is possible to use either an unused partition or a completely unused disk on the host as a disk in the virtual machine However it is important to be aware that an operating system installed in this setting probably cannot boot outside of the virtual machine even though the data is available to the host If you have a dual boot system and want to configure a virtual machine to boot from an existing partition see Configuring a Dual Boot Computer for Use with a Virtual Machine on page 146 The instructions in this section do not apply to a disk with a previously installed operating system Caution Raw disks are an advanced feature and should be configured only by expert users VMware Workstation uses description files to control access to each raw disk on the system These description files contai
117. a supported Windows host computer see Installing VMware Workstation 4 on a Windows Host on page 29 To install on a Linux host computer see Installing VMware Workstation 4 on a Linux Host on page 34 Upgrading from Previous Versions If you are upgrading from a previous version of VMware Workstation read Upgrading VMware Workstation on page 39 before you begin 28 www vmMware com CHAPTER 2 Installing VMware Workstation Installing VMware Workstation 4 on a Windows Host Getting started with VMware Workstation is simple The key steps are iF A 6 Install the VMware Workstation software as described in this section Start VMware Workstation and enter your serial number You need to do this only once the first time you start VMware Workstation after you install it Create a virtual machine using the New Virtual Machine Wizard See Creating a New Virtual Machine on page 63 Install a guest operating system in the new virtual machine You need the installation media CD ROM or floppy disks for your guest operating system See Installing a Guest Operating System and VMware Tools on page 74 Install the VMware Tools package in your virtual machine for enhanced performance See Installing VMware Tools on page 77 Start using your virtual machine Before you begin be sure you have A computer and host operating system that meet the system requirements for running VMware Workstation See Host System Requirements
118. ach the Select a Disk step select Use a physical disk 4 Complete the wizard steps specifying the appropriate disk or partition to use for this virtual machine Note The maximum size of an IDE disk in a virtual machine is 128GB 5 Torun multiple guest operating systems from different raw disk partitions unmap these partitions on the host On a Windows NT host use the Disk Administrator Start gt Programs gt Administrative Tools First highlight the partition that contains the guest operating system then select Assign Drive Letter from the Tools menu In this form choose Do not assign a drive letter for the partition and click OK The unmapping happens immediately On a Windows Server 2003 Windows XP or Windows 2000 host use Disk Management Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt Administrative Tools gt Computer Management gt Storage gt Disk Management Select the partition you want to unmap then from the Action menu select All Tasks gt Change Drive Letter and Path Click the Remove button 6 Use the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings if you want to change any configuration options from the wizard defaults for example to change the amount of memory allocated to the guest operating system 7 Ifyou have multiple IDE drives configured on a system the VMware BIOS normally attempts to boot them in this sequence A Primary master 150 rare gimn CHAPTER 7 Using Disks
119. achine s BIOS lt vmname gt vmdk the virtual disk file which stores the contents of the virtual machine s hard disk drive A virtual disk is made up of one or more vmdk files If you have specified that the virtual disk should be split into 2GB chunks the number of vmdk files depends on the size of the virtual disk As data is added to a virtual disk the vmdk files grow in size to a maximum of 2GB each If you specify that all space should be allocated when you create the disk these files start at the maximum size and do not grow Almost all of a vmdk file s content is the virtual machine s data with a small portion allotted to virtual machine overhead If the virtual machine is connected directly to a physical disk rather than to a virtual disk the vmdk file stores information about the partitions the virtual machine is allowed to access Note Earlier VMware products used the extension dsk for virtual disk files lt vmname gt log or vmware log the file that keeps a log of key VMware Workstation activity This file can be useful in troubleshooting if you encounter problems This file is stored in the directory that holds the configuration vmx or cfg file of the virtual machine lt vmname gt vmdk REDO_xxxxxx a redo log file created automatically when a virtual machine has a snapshot This file stores changes made to a virtual disk while the virtual machine is running There may be more than on
120. al Hardware 6 Adialog box cautions you that the operation is irreversible and recommends that you back up the virtual disks before proceeding If you are ready to proceed click Yes 7 Adialog box displays a message describing what is about to happen Click OK to continue 8 Power on the virtual machine 9 Windows detects the PCI SVGA adapter then it detects the VMware SVGA II adapter Click Yes to continue installation www vmMware com CHAPTER 3 Upgrading VMware Workstation 10 A dialog box asks you to insert a disk Navigate to 11 C Program Files VMware drivers to install the VMware SVGA Il adapter If you have serial ports configured in the virtual machine go to the Windows Device Manager and uninstall all the COM ports listed there 12 Restart the virtual machine 13 Windows detects the COM ports and installs them properly Windows NT 4 0 Guest if Power on the virtual machine and let it update the CMOS 2 Windows displays a message about the video driver in the guest operating system Click OK 3 Install the new version of VMware Tools For details see Installing VMware Tools on page 77 4 Restart Windows and confirm that it is operating correctly 5 Shut down Windows and power off the virtual machine 6 Choose File gt Upgrade Virtual Hardware 7 Adialog box cautions you that the operation is irreversible and recommends that you back up the virtual disks before proceeding If you are
121. al Machines Moving a VMware Workstation 4 Virtual Machine Virtual Machines Use Relative Paths Preparing Your Virtual Machine for the Move Moving a Virtual Machine to a New Host Machine Moving a VMware Workstation 3 1 or 3 2 Virtual Machine Virtual Machines May Have Relative or Absolute Paths Preparing Your Virtual Machine for the Move Moving a Virtual Machine to a New Host Machine Moving an Older Virtual Machine Preparing Your Virtual Machine for the Move Preparing the New Host Machine Considerations for Moving Disks in Undoable Mode Sharing Virtual Machines with Other Users Using Disks Configuring Hard Disk Storage in a Virtual Machine Disk Types Virtual and Physical File Locations Updating Filenames for Virtual Disks Created with Earlier VMware Products Defragmenting and Shrinking Virtual Disks Adding Drives to a Virtual Machine Adding Virtual Disks to a Virtual Machine Adding Raw Disks to a Virtual Machine Adding DVD or CD Drives to a Virtual Machine Adding Floppy Drives to a Virtual Machine Connecting a CD ROM or Floppy Drive to an Image File Configuring a Dual Boot Computer for Use with a Virtual Machine Configuring Dual or Multiple Boot Systems to Run with VMware Workstation Setting Up Hardware Profiles in Virtual Machines Running a Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Virtual Machine from an Existing Multiple Boot Installation 157 Setting Up the SVGA Video Driver for a Windows 95 Guest Operating System Booted from a
122. al Support Resources Documentation on the Web VMware Knowledge Base VMware Newsgroups Reporting Problems Installing VMware Workstation Selecting Your Host System Installing VMware Workstation 4 on a Windows Host Installing the VMware Workstation Software Uninstalling VMware Workstation 4 on a Windows Host Installing VMware Workstation 4 on a Linux Host Before Installing on a Linux Host Installing the VMware Workstation Software Configuring Your Web Browser Uninstalling VMware Workstation 4 on a Linux Host Upgrading VMware Workstation Preparing for the Upgrade Before You Install VMware Workstation 4 When You Remove Version 2 or 3 and Install Version 4 Upgrading from Version 2 or 3 to Version 4 Using Virtual Machines Created with Version 3 under Version 4 Create Everything New from the Start Use an Existing Configuration File and Virtual Disk Use an Existing Virtual Machine and Upgrade the Virtual Hardware Upgrading Virtual Hardware in the Guest Operating System Upgrading the Virtual Hardware in an Existing Virtual Machine ee a ee et ee oof BW 22 24 24 24 24 24 27 28 29 29 32 34 34 35 37 eTa Using Virtual Machines Created with Version 2 under Version 4 58 Upgrading Virtual Hardware in the Guest Operating System 58 Creating a New Virtual Machine 63 Setting Up a New Virtual Machine 65 What s in a Virtual Machine 65 Simple Steps to a New Virtual Machine 66 Installing a Guest Operating System and VMware Tools
123. al amount of memory reserved to all running virtual machines Available physical memory 512MB Minimum reserved memory 32MB Recommended reserved memory 384MB Reserved size MB 384 change in the amount of reserved memory becomes effective after all currently running virtual machines are powered off or suspended You will not be able to power on virtual machines whose combined memory requirements exceed the reserved value Use caution Reserving too much memory for running virtual machines may result in poor performance or a hung system Reserved memory size he Memory tab lets you adjust the amount of memory reserved for all running virtual machines For details on adjusting memory settings in VMware Workstation see Memory Usage Notes on page 292 112 Fico CHAPTER 5 Running VMware Workstation Application Settings Memory Priority Lockout Process priority Input grabbed normal v Input ungrabbed normal v virtual machine s local settings will override the global preferences above Cancel Help Process priorities The Priority tab on a Windows host lets you determine the priority that the Windows process scheduler gives to your virtual machines when mouse and keyboard input are going to a particular virtual machine and when input is not going to that virtual machine You can adjust these settings to improve overall system performance based on the relative priority of work y
124. al machine s first virtual CD ROM drive to the ISO image file that contains the VMware Tools installer for your guest operating system and begins the installation process VMware Tools for Windows Guests The detailed steps for installing VMware Tools depend on the version of Windows you are running The steps that follow show how to install VMware Tools in a Windows XP guest Some steps that are automated in newer versions of Windows must be performed manually in Windows 9x and Windows NT Note Ifyou are running VMware Workstation on a Windows host and your virtual machine has only one CD ROM drive the CD ROM drive must be configured as an IDE or SCSI CD ROM drive It cannot be configured as a generic SCSI device To add an IDE or SCSI CD ROM drive see Adding Configuring and Removing Devices in a Virtual Machine on page 109 For information about generic SCSI see Connecting to a Generic SCSI Device on page 279 Installing VMware Tools in a Windows Guest Operating System 1 Power on the virtual machine 2 When the guest operating system starts prepare your virtual machine to install VMware Tools Choose File gt Install VMware Tools The remaining steps take place inside the virtual machine 3 If you have autorun enabled in your guest operating system the default setting for Windows operating systems a dialog box appears after a few seconds It asks if you want to install VMware Tools Click Yes to launch the InstallShield wiz
125. al machines and the Windows hardware profiles concept should attempt this If you haven t already done so review Configuring Dual or Multiple Boot Systems to Run with VMware Workstation on page 148 before proceeding Each virtual machine provides a platform that consists of the following set of virtual devices Virtual DVD CD ROM Virtual IDE and SCSI hard disk drives Standard PCI graphics adapter Standard floppy disk drive Intel 82371 PCI Bus Master IDE controller includes primary and secondary IDE controllers BusLogic BT 958 compatible SCSI host adapter Standard 101 102 key keyboard PS 2 compatible mouse AMD PCnet PCl Il compatible Ethernet adapter Serial ports COM1 COM4 Parallel ports LPT1 LPT2 Two port USB hub Sound card compatible with the Sound Blaster Ensoniq AudioPCl 82093AA IOAPIC This set of virtual devices is different from the set of physical hardware devices on the host computer and is independent of the underlying hardware with a few exceptions the processor itself is such an exception This feature provides a stable platform and allows operating system images installed within a virtual machine to be migrated to other physical machines regardless of the configuration of the physical machine 1 54 www vmMware com CHAPTER 7 Using Disks If an operating system is installed directly into a VMware Workstation virtual machine the operating system properly detects all the virtual devices by scanning the
126. al number when you installed the product an option available on a Windows host you are prompted to enter it The serial number is on the registration card in your package Enter your serial number and click OK The serial number you enter is saved and VMware Workstation does not ask you for it again For your convenience VMware Workstation automatically sends the serial number to the VMware Web site when you use certain Web links built into the product for example Help gt VMware software on the Web gt Register Now and Help gt VMware on the Web gt Request Support This allows us to direct you to the correct Web page to register and get support for your product www vmware comM CHAPTER 4 Creating a New Virtual Machine 3 Linux hosts If this is the first time you have launched VMware Workstation a dialog box asks if you want to rename existing virtual disks using the new vmdk extension Click OK to search all local drives on the host computer and make this change On Windows hosts you have a chance to rename virtual disk files when you are installing VMware Workstation The converter also renames the files that store the state of a suspended virtual Linux Hosts One machine if it finds them It changes the old std file extension to vmss Chance to Rename However it is best to resume and shut down all suspended virtual machines Disk Files before you upgrade to Workstation 4 The Rename Virtual Disks dialog box
127. and Repeatable Resume The repeatable resume feature in earlier versions of Workstation allowed you to resume a suspended virtual machine repeatedly in the same state You can use the Snapshot to accomplish the same thing Run the virtual machine be sure it is in the 179 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual state you want it then suspend it Take a snapshot Go to Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings gt Options gt Snapshot Under When powering off select Revert to the snapshot The Snapshot and Legacy Virtual Machines If you are using a legacy virtual machine a virtual machine created under VMware Workstation 3 and not upgraded to use the new VMware Workstation 4 virtual hardware and you have disks in undoable or nonpersistent mode you have a snapshot If you have persistent disks you have no snapshot You have the following options Persistent mode You have no snapshot You may take a snapshot any time the virtual machine is powered off Undoable mode You have a snapshot You may update or remove the Snapshot any time the virtual machine is powered off Nonpersistent mode You have a snapshot In addition in the Virtual Machine Control Panel the virtual machine is set to revert to the snapshot every time it is powered off You may update or remove the snapshot any time the virtual machine is powered off You may also change the settings in the Virtual Machine Control Panel any time the virtual machine is power
128. and a snapshot as described above take the following steps 1 Power on the virtual machine and be sure it is in the state you want then take the snapshot 2 Configure the virtual machine to return to the snapshot any time it is powered off To do so go to Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings gt Options gt Snapshot and select After powering off and Revert to snapshot 3 With the virtual machine powered off restrict the user interface Close the VMware Workstation window then open the virtual machine s configuration file vmx file in Notepad or another text editor Add the following line anywhere in the file gui restricted true 4 You may wish to set file permissions on the configuration file to give normal users of the system only read access to the file so they cannot manually modify the configuration 5 For the convenience of users create a shortcut to the configuration file on the desktop and give it an appropriate name The user runs this virtual machine by double clicking the shortcut to the configuration file The virtual machine starts at the snapshot with the user interface restricted with no toolbar and no access to the Power menu or the Virtual Machine Control Panel 306 o omn CHAPTER 13 Special Purpose Configuration Options When the user is finished working with this virtual machine he or she closes it by choosing File gt Close The virtual machine powers off and the next time a user powers it
129. anel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings click the Options tab and select Guest isolation 2 Select Disable drag and drop to and from this virtual machine to disable the feature Deselect it to enable the feature Suspending and Resuming Virtual Machines You can save the current state of your virtual machine by suspending it Later you can resume the virtual machine to pick up work quickly right where you stopped with all documents you were working on open and all applications in the same state as they were at the time you suspended the virtual machine To suspend a virtual machine 1 Ifyour virtual machine is running in full screen mode return to window mode by pressing the Ctrl Alt key combination 2 Click Suspend on the VMware Workstation toolbar 3 When VMware Workstation has completed the suspend operation it is safe to exit VMware Workstation 107 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual File gt Exit To resume a virtual machine that you have suspended 1 Start VMware Workstation and choose a virtual machine you have suspended The process is the same as that described in Starting a Virtual Machine on a Windows Host on page 96 or Starting a Virtual Machine on a Linux Host on page 98 2 Click Resume on the VMware Workstation toolbar Note that any applications you were running at the time you suspended the virtual machine are running and the content is the same as it was when you suspended the virtual machine
130. ard Don t Forget VMware Tools e It is very important that you install VMware Tools in the guest operating system With the VMware Tools SVGA driver installed Workstation supports significantly faster graphics performance e The VMware Tools package provides Support required for shared folders and for drag and drop operations e Other tools in the package support synchronization of time in the guest operating system with time on the host automatic grabbing and releasing of the mouse cursor copying and pasting between guest and host and improved mouse performance in some guest operating systems 77 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 78 If autorun is not enabled the dialog box does not appear automatically If it doesn t appear run the VMware Tools installer Click Start gt Run and enter D setup setup exe where D is your first virtual CD ROM drive Note You do not use an actual CD ROM to install VMware Tools nor do you need to download the CD ROM image or burn a physical CD ROM of this image file The VMware Workstation software contains an ISO image that looks like a CD ROM to your guest operating system and even appears as a CD ROM in Windows Explorer This image contains all the files needed to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system When you finish installing VMware Tools this image file no longer appears in your CD ROM drive Windows XP Professional Ctrl Alt F
131. ard don t work right in the virtual machine My keyboard works fine when run a virtual machine locally but not when run the same virtual machine with a remote X server Quick Answers If your keyboard works correctly with a local X server and you just want the same behavior with a remote X server which is also an XFree86 server running on a PC just power off the virtual machine and close the VMware Workstation window then add the line xkeymap usekeycodeMaplfXFree86 true to the virtual machine configuration file or to vmware config Make this change on the host machine where you run the virtual machine not on the machine with the remote X server If you are using an XFree86 based server that VMware Workstation does not recognize as an XFree86 server use this instead xkeymap usekeycodeMap true If you are using an XFree86 server running locally and the keyboard does not work correctly please report the problem to the VMware technical support department The Longer Story Unfortunately keyboard support for the PC virtual or otherwise is a complex affair To do it justice we have to start with some background information greatly simplified Pressing a key on the PC keyboard generates a scan code based roughly on the position of the key For example the Z key on a German keyboard generates the same code as the Y key on an English keyboard because they are in the same position on the keyboard Most keys
132. are Workstation puts a lock on the device and this lock restricts access so only the virtual machine can use the port You can choose Edit gt Removable Devices to disconnect the parallel port from the virtual machine and reconnect it Device Permissions Some Linux distributions by default do not grant the virtual machine access to the 1p and parport devices In most of these cases the owner of the device is root and the associated group is 1p To allow the VMware user to access the device add the user to the associated group To view the owner and group of the device run this command ls la dev parporto0 The third and fourth columns of the output show the owner and group respectively To add the user to the device group edit the etc group file On the line starting with 1p which defines the 1p group add the VMware Workstation user s user name You must make this change as the root user The following line provides an example for a user whose user name is user lp 7 daemon lp userj The next time the user logs on to the host the changes take effect Special Notes for the lomega Zip Drive On Windows 95 or Windows 98 use of older drivers for the lomega Zip drive may cause the guest operating system to lock up intermittently at boot time or during installation of the guest operating system The newest lomega drivers work reliably in our tests They are available at www iomega com software index html 253 VMware Work
133. artition to use for this virtual machine Caution Corruption is possible if you allow the virtual machine to modify a partition that is simultaneously mounted under Linux Since the virtual machine 152 Fico and guest operating system access an existing partition while the host continues to run Linux it is critical that the virtual machine not be allowed to modify any partition mounted under Linux or in use by another virtual machine To safeguard against this problem be sure the partition you use in the virtual machine is not mounted under the Linux host 9 Complete the remaining steps in the wizard 10 If you have multiple IDE drives configured on a system the VMware BIOS normally attempts to boot them in this sequence A Primary master B Primary slave C Secondary master D Secondary slave If you have multiple SCSI drives configured on a system the VMware BIOS normally attempts to boot them in the order of the SCSI device number If you have both SCSI and IDE drives configured the VMware BIOS normally attempts to boot SCSI drives followed by IDE drives in the order described above You can change the boot sequence using the Boot menu of the virtual machine s Phoenix BIOS To enter the BIOS setup utility power on the virtual machine and press F2 as the virtual machine begins to boot 11 Power on the virtual machine Click the Power On button The virtual machine starts runs the Phoenix BIOS then boots fro
134. as 256GB Depending on the size of the virtual disk and the host operating system VMware Workstation creates one or more files to hold each virtual disk By default the actual files used by the virtual disk start out small and grow to their maximum size as needed The main advantage of this approach is the smaller file size Smaller files require less storage space and are easier to move if you want to move the virtual machine to a new location However it takes longer to write data to disk configured in this way You may also configure virtual disks so all the disk space is allocated at the time the virtual disk is created This approach provides enhanced performance and is useful if 131 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual you are running performance sensitive applications in the virtual machine Virtual disks created in this way are similar to the experimental plain disks that could be created under VMware Workstation 2 Virtual disks can be set up as IDE disks for any guest operating system They can be set up as SCSI disks for any guest operating system that has a driver for the BusLogic SCSI adapter used in a VMware Workstation virtual machine Note To use SCSI disks in a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 virtual machine you need a special SCSI driver available from the download section of the VMware Web site at www vmware com download Follow the instructions on the Web site to use the driver with a fresh installation of Windows XP
135. at the time the host operating system is booted Consequently routing server processes that operate on the host operating system such as routed and gated automatically discover it and propagate information on how to reach it unless you explicitly configure them not to do so If either of these programs is being run only to receive routing information the easiest solution is to run it with a q option so that it does not supply routing information only receives it If however they are running because they are to supply routing information then you need to configure them so they do not advertise routes to the host only network Unfortunately the version of routed that comes with many distributions of Linux has no support for specifying that an interface should not be advertised Consult the routed 8 manual page for your system in case you have a more contemporary version of the software For gated configuration is involved You need to explicitly exclude the VMnet1 interface from any protocol activity If you need to run virtual machines on a host only network on a multihomed system where gated is used and have problems doing so please contact VMware technical support by submitting a support request at www vmware com requestsupport Other Potential Issues with Host Only Networking on a Linux Host The following are common issues you may encounter when you are configuring a host only network DHCPD on the Linux Host Does Not Work a
136. ation 4 User s Manual 5 The drive is set up initially so it appears to the quest operating system as an IDE drive If you want it to appear to the guest operating system as a SCSI drive click the drive s entry in the Virtual Machine Control Panel and make that change in the settings panel on the right Legacy Emulation for DVD and CD Drives The Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings provides a Legacy emulation option for DVD and CD drives attached to the virtual machine On Windows hosts this option is deselected by default On Linux hosts with IDE drives the default setting for this option depends on whether the ide scsi module is loaded in your kernel The ide scsi module must be loaded or you must be using a physical SCSI drive if you want to connect to the DVD or CD drive in raw mode If you encounter problems using your DVD or CD drive try selecting Legacy emulation Note that in legacy emulation mode you can read from data discs in the DVD or CD drive but some other functions are not available When Legacy emulation is deselected the guest operating system communicates directly with the drive This direct communication enables capabilities that are not possible in legacy emulation mode such as using CD and DVD writers to burn discs reading multisession CDs performing digital audio extraction and viewing video However in some cases the DVD or CD drive may not work correctly when the gu
137. ation Folder Click Next to install to this folde Install Mware Workstation to C Program Files WMware Mware Workstation 5 Choose the directory in which to install VMware Workstation To install it in a directory other than the default click Change and browse to your directory of choice If the directory does not exist the installer creates it for you Click Next Caution Do not install VMware Workstation on a network drive Note Windows and the Microsoft Installer limit the length of a path to a folder on a local drive to 255 characters For a path to a folder on a mapped or shared drive the limit is 240 characters If the path to the VMware Workstation program folder exceeds this limit an error message appears You must select or enter a shorter path 6 The installer has gathered the necessary information and is ready to begin installing the software i VMware Workstation Ready to Install the Progran The wizard is ready to begin installat Click Install to begin the installation If you want to review or change any of your installation settings click Back Click Cancel to exit the wizard If you want to change any settings or information you provided now is the time to make those changes Click Back until you reach the dialog box containing the information you want to change If you do not need to make any changes click Install The installer begins copying files to your computer 7 Ifthe installer
138. ation and close the Virtual Machine Control Panel Determine the network addresses used for VMnet2 and VMnet3 CHAPTER 9 Networking 193 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Note On a Windows host you may skip the steps for configuring network addresses manually and instead use Workstation s DHCP server Go to Edit gt Virtual Network Settings gt DHCP and add VMnet2 and VMnet3 to the list of virtual networks served by the virtual DHCP server Then skip to step 9 On a Windows host open a command prompt on the host computer and run ipconfig all Note the network addresses used by each virtual adapter On a Linux host run ifconfig at the console or in a terminal window on the host computer Note the network addresses used by each virtual switch 7 Start VMware Workstation open each virtual machine in turn and install the appropriate guest operating system 8 Configure the networking in each guest operating system For the bridged Ethernet adapter in virtual machine 1 use the networking settings needed for a connection to the external network If the virtual machine gets its IP address from a DHCP server on the external network the default settings should work For the second Ethernet adapter in virtual machine 1 manually assign an IP address in the range you are using with VMnet2 In virtual machine 2 assign an IP address in the range you are using with VMnet2 In virtual machine 3 network adapters are connected
139. ation for the appropriate steps to take For example in a Red Hat Linux 7 1 guest using GNOME follow these steps 1 Open the Startup Programs panel in the GNOME Control Center Main Menu click the foot icon in the lower left corner of the screen gt Programs gt Settings gt Session gt Startup Programs 2 Click Add 3 Inthe Startup Command field enter vmware toolbox 4 Click OK click OK again then close the GNOME Control Center The next time you start X VMware Tools starts automatically www vmMware comM CHAPTER 4 Creating a New Virtual Machine Uninstalling VMware Tools If you need to remove VMware Tools from your Linux guest operating system log on as root su and run the following command vinware uninstall tools pl VMware Tools for FreeBSD Guests 1 Power on the virtual machine 2 Prepare your virtual machine to install VMware Tools Choose File gt Install VMware Tools The remaining steps take place inside the virtual machine not on the host computer 3 Be sure the guest operating system is running in text mode You cannot install VMware Tools while X is running 4 Asroot su mount the VMware Tools virtual CD ROM image change to a working directory for example tmp uncompress the installer then unmount the CD ROM image Note You do not use an actual CD ROM to install VMware Tools nor do you need to download the CD ROM image or burn a physical CD ROM of this image file The VMwar
140. be sent outside the host computer Consult your operating system documentation for details on how to configure packet filtering Leaks from a Virtual Machine Virtual machines may leak packets as well For example if you use Dial Up Networking support in a virtual machine and packet forwarding is enabled host only network traffic may leak out through the dial up connection To prevent the leakage be sure packet forwarding is disabled in your guest operating system Maintaining and Changing the MAC Address of a Virtual Machine When a virtual machine is powered on VMware Workstation automatically assigns each of its virtual network adapters an Ethernet MAC address MAC stands for media access control A MAC address is the unique address assigned to each Ethernet network device The software guarantees that virtual machines are assigned unique MAC addresses within a given host system In most cases the virtual machine is assigned the same MAC address every time it is powered on so long as the virtual machine is not moved the path and filename for the virtual machine s configuration file must remain the same and no changes are made to certain settings in that file In addition VMware Workstation does its best but cannot guarantee to automatically assign unique MAC addresses for virtual machines running on multiple host systems Avoiding MAC Changes To avoid changes in the MAC address automatically assigned to a virtual machine
141. before you reboot your guest operating system natively This is necessary because any changes to sectors on the physical disk that have been modified on the disk invalidate the snapshot for the disk Configuring a Linux Host 1 Ifyou are running a Windows guest operating system read Setting Up Hardware Profiles in Virtual Machines on page 154 You should boot the guest operating system natively on the computer and create a hardware profile for the virtual machine before proceeding 2 Create a separate configuration for each guest operating system 151 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 3 Check operating system partition mounts Be sure the existing disk partitions that you plan to configure the virtual machine to use are not mounted by Linux 4 Set the device group membership or device ownership The master raw disk device or devices need to be readable and writable by the user who runs VMware Workstation On most distributions the raw devices such as dev hda IDE raw disk and dev sda SCSI raw disk belong to group id disk If this is the case you can add VMware Workstation users to the disk group Another option is to change the owner of the device Please think carefully about security issues when exploring different options here Often the most convenient approach is to grant VMware Workstation users access to all dev hd abcd raw devices that contain operating systems or boot managers and then rely on VMware Workstation
142. ble mode commit or discard any changes to the virtual disks before you remove the release you used to create them Resume or power on the virtual machine in the earlier release shut down the guest operating system power off the virtual machine and either commit or discard changes to the disk in undoable mode when prompted If the disks are in persistent or nonpersistent mode be sure the virtual machine is completely shut down If it is suspended resume it shut down the guest operating system and power off the virtual machine 41 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual If you have an existing virtual machine that has multiple virtual disks and the disks are in multiple modes the simplest approach to upgrading is to convert all the disks to persistent mode Resume or power on the virtual machine in the earlier release shut down the guest operating system power off the virtual machine and either commit or discard changes to any undoable mode disks when prompted Then open the configuration editor and change all disks to persistent mode After you upgrade to VMware Workstation 4 you can use the snapshot feature to preserve the state of a virtual machine and return to that state at a later time For more information on the snapshot feature see Using the Snapshot on page 176 If you need to preserve special functionality that requires disks in multiple modes review the information at www vmware com info id 40 before you upgrade Back Up
143. bling Disabling Adding and Removing Host Virtual Adapters Advanced Networking Topics 196 200 203 Selecting IP Addresses on a Host Only Network or NAT Configuration __ 203 Avoiding IP Packet Leakage in a Host Only Network Maintaining and Changing the MAC Address of a Virtual Machine 205 207 Controlling Routing Information for a Host Only Network on a Linux Host 209 Other Potential Issues with Host Only Networking on a Linux Host Setting Up a Second Bridged Network Interface on a Linux Host Setting Up Two Separate Host Only Networks Routing between Two Host Only Networks Using Virtual Ethernet Adapters in Promiscuous Mode on a Linux Host __ Understanding NAT Using NAT The Host Computer and the NAT Network DHCP on the NAT Network DNS on the NAT Network External Access from the NAT Network Advanced NAT Configuration Custom NAT and DHCP Configuration on a Windows Host Considerations for Using NAT Using NAT with NetLogon Sample Linux vmnetnat conf File Using Samba on a Linux Host Using Samba for File Sharing on a Linux Host Video and Sound Setting Screen Color Depth in a Virtual Machine Changing Screen Color Depth on the Host Changing Screen Color Depth in the Virtual Machine Changing XFree86 Video Resolutions on a Linux Host Configuration Possible Issues Configuring Sound 209 222 226 226 221 228 231 231 239 241 241 241 243 243 243 245 Installing Sound Drivers in Windows 9x and Windows NT Gue
144. c Visual Effects The fade effects that Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 use when displaying menus can be somewhat slow and make the virtual machine seem less responsive To disable the fade effects right click the guest operating system desktop then choose Properties gt Appearance gt Effects on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 or Properties gt Effects on Windows 2000 and uncheck Use transition effects for menus and tool tips 298 o omn CHAPTER 12 Performance Tuning Full Screen Mode Run your virtual machine in full screen mode Click the Full Screen button on the VMware Workstation toolbar 299 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Linux Guest Operating System Performance Tips This section offers advice for configuring a Linux guest operating system for better performance inside a VMware Workstation virtual machine Note This document pertains to the guest operating system that is running inside a VMware Workstation virtual machine It does not describe actions that should be taken on Linux running on the host Guest Operating System Selection Make certain you have selected the correct guest operating system in the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings gt Options VMware Tools Make certain VMware Tools is installed VMware Tools provides an optimized SVGA driver and sets up the VMware Tools service to run automatically when the system starts Among other things t
145. chine 19 Image file floppy 20 145 ISO 19 143 145 Input capturing from keyboard and mouse 110 Install guest operating system 74 guest operating system on raw disk 166 on Linux host 34 on Windows host 29 software in a virtual machine 103 VMware Tools 77 VMware Workstation 27 Internet connection sharing 191 lomega parallel port Zip drives 253 IP address assigning 205 in virtual machine 70 IP forwarding 206 207 ISO image file 19 143 145 K Kernel reconfiguring Workstation after Linux kernel upgrade 36 Key code mapping 268 Keyboard mapping on a Linux host 266 sending input to virtual machine 110 shortcuts 115 USB 278 Keysym defined 267 mapping 268 Knowledge base 24 L Launch virtual machine 96 98 Leak IP packets in a virtual machine 207 IP packets in host only network 205 LILO 149 152 163 Link symbolic link does not work in shared folder 106 Linux installing on Linux host 34 Supported guest operating systems 22 supported host operating systems 17 uninstalling Workstation on Linux host 37 upgrading on Linux host 46 VMware Tools for 81 Lock files 134 Lockout for some interface features 303 Log files 24 65 M MAC address assigning manually 208 of virtual Ethernet adapter 207 Map key code 268 keyboard 266 keysym 268 Memory amount required on host 16 available in virtual machine 19 choosing for best performance 286 more than 1GB on a Linux host 294 reserved memory 293 reserved mem
146. choose File gt Upgrade Virtual Hardware Similarly if you switch back to VMware Workstation 3 your guest operating system may detect hardware changes and install the appropriate drivers You should expect to see this behavior each time you switch from one version of VMware Workstation to the other Windows hosts At the time you install VMware Workstation 4 the installer offers to convert virtual disk dsk filenames to use the vmdk extension introduced with version 3 If you still have virtual disks using the dsk extension and if you are storing virtual disk files on a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 host it is especially important that you allow VMware Workstation to make this change in order to avoid conflicts with the Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 System Restore feature The 47 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual vmdk extension can be used for virtual disks under any VMware product VMware Workstation 4 automatically updates references to the virtual disk files in configuration files on the host computer If you are using the same virtual disk file from any other computer you need to update the configuration files with the new filename For details see Updating Filenames for Virtual Disks Created with Earlier VMware Products on page 135 Linux hosts The first time you run a virtual machine after installing VMware Workstation 4 Workstation offers to convert virtual disk dsk filenames to use the vmdk extension introduc
147. connection between the host virtual Ethernet adapter and a physical network adapter on the host computer This allows you for example to connect the virtual machine to a Token Ring or other non Ethernet network On a Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 host computer you can use host only networking in combination with the Internet connection sharing feature in Windows to allow a virtual machine to use the host s dial up networking adapter or other connection to the Internet See your Windows documentation for details on configuring Internet connection sharing 191 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Custom Networking Configurations The virtual networking components provided by VMware Workstation make it possible for you to create sophisticated virtual networks The virtual networks can be connected to one or more external networks or they may run entirely on the host computer Setting up networking components for your custom virtual network is a straightforward process Before attempting to set up complex virtual networks you should have a good understanding of how to configure network devices in your host and guest operating systems The sample configuration described in this section illustrates many of the ways you can combine devices on a virtual network Other custom configurations are described in Advanced Networking Topics on page 203 and Understanding NAT on page 220 Host s Ethernet Vi
148. ctory in which newly created virtual machines are stored The directory Workstation uses by default is 111 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual displayed under Default location for virtual machines To set a different directory type in the path or click Browse to navigate to the directory you want to use Workstation creates a directory for each new virtual machine under the directory you specify here If you select Remember opened virtual machines between sessions checkbox you see a tab for each opened virtual machine in the virtual machine window the next time you start Workstation A virtual machine is considered opened if both of the following conditions are true The virtual machine was left open The virtual machine was powered on and off or powered on and suspended Setting Application Settings for VMware Workstation The Application Settings dialog box allows you to change a number of settings that apply to VMware Workstation itself The settings on the Memory and Lockout tabs apply no matter what virtual machine is running or who is logged on to the host computer The settings on the Priority tab apply to all virtual machines for the user currently logged on to the host computer They do not affect settings made by any other user on the computer To make changes to these settings choose Edit gt Application Settings Application Settings Memory Priority Lockout Reserved memory Enable memory limits Select the tot
149. defined 310 hide 102 removing from list 98 Files BIOS in virtual machine 65 location of virtual disk files 68 log 65 redo log 65 renaming virtual disk 67 Samba and file sharing on a Linux host 231 sharing among virtual machines and host 104 107 snapshot 66 suspended state 66 used by a virtual machine 65 used by snapshot 65 virtual disk files 65 Firewall 227 Fit virtual machine to window 101 window to virtual machine 101 Floppy add drive to virtual machine 144 drives in virtual machine 20 317 318 image file 20 145 Folder shared 104 FreeBSD Supported guest operating systems 23 VMware Tools for 83 FTP 221 Full screen mode defined 310 switching between virtual machines 99 using 99 G gated 209 Grab keyboard and mouse input 110 Graphics support in virtual machine 19 241 Guest operating system defined 310 installing 74 supported 22 H Halt virtual machine 108 Hardware profiles 154 Help configuring Web browser for on Linux host 37 Hide controls 102 toolbar 305 Host computer system requirements 16 Host machine 310 Host operating system 311 Host virtual adapter adding 200 defined 186 disabling 200 enabling 200 removing 200 Host virtual network mapping 198 www vmware com Host only networking and Workstation upgrade on Win dows 2000 host 45 basic configuration 190 defined 310 enabling on Linux host 36 selecting IP addresses 203 Hot keys 111 l ICMP 221 IDE drives in virtual ma
150. detects that the CD ROM autorun feature is enabled you see a message that gives you the option to disable this feature Disabling it prevents undesirable interactions with the virtual machines you install on this system 31 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 8 You may see one or more Digital Signature Not Found dialog boxes when the installer begins to install the VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapters You can safely ignore these warnings and click Yes or Continue to approve installation of the drivers 9 A dialog box appears asking if you want to rename existing virtual disks using the vmdk extension Rename Virtual Disks Beginning with VMware Workstation 3 0 the filename extensions for virtual disk and suspended state files have changed Note Renamed virtual disks can be used with earlier versions of YMware Workstation However redo logs and suspended state files generated by Workstation 3 0 or later versions are not compatible with earlier versions of Mware Workstation Do you want Workstation to search for virtual disk and suspended state files that are using the old extensions now No This naming convention was introduced in VMware Workstation 3 If your virtual disk files already use the vmdk extension click No to skip this process Click Yes if you want to search all local drives on the host computer and make this change The converter also renames the files that store the state of a suspended virtual One Cha
151. dev vmnet lt x gt activeFTP Flag to indicate if active FTP is to be allowed Active FTP allows incoming connections to be opened by the remote FTP server Turning this off means that only passive mode FTP works Set to 0 to turn it off The udp Section timeout Number of minutes to keep the UDP mapping for the NAT The dns Section This section is for Windows hosts only Linux does not use this section policy Policy to use for DNS forwarding Accepted values include order rotate and burst order send one DNS request at a time in order of the name servers rotate send one DNS request at a time and rotate through the DNS servers burst send to three servers and wait for the first one to respond timeout Time in seconds before retrying a DNS request retries Number of retries before the NAT device gives up on a DNS request autodetect Flag to indicate if the NAT should automatically detect the DNS servers available to the host nameserverl IP address of a DNS server to use nameserver2 IP address of a DNS server to use 224 www vmware com CHAPTER 9 Networking nameserver3 IP address of a DNS server to use If autodetect is on and some name servers are specified the DNS servers specified in nameserverl nameserver2 andnameserver3 are added before the list of detected DNS servers The netbios Section This section applies to Windows hosts only Linux does not use this section nbnsTimeout 2
152. device status setting is Connect at power on You may deselect this setting if you wish Click Advanced if you want to configure this serial port to use polled mode This option is of interest primarily to developers who are using debugging tools that communicate over a serial connection For more information see Special Configuration Options for Advanced Users on page 262 9 Click Finish then click OK to close the Virtual Machine Control Panel Linux Host In the server virtual machine 1 Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings 260 o oen Vi A WON CHAPTER 11 Connecting Devices Click Add to start the Add Hardware Wizard Select Serial Port then click Next Select Output to named pipe then click Next In the Path field enter tmp lt socket gt or another Unix socket name of your choice Select This end is the server Select The other end is a virtual machine By default the device status setting is Connect at power on You may deselect this setting if you wish Click Advanced if you want to configure this serial port to use polled mode This option is of interest primarily to developers who are using debugging tools that communicate over a serial connection For more information see Special Configuration Options for Advanced Users on page 262 Click Finish then click OK to save your configuration and close the Virtual Machine Control Panel In the client virtual machine ie
153. disk This destroys all data on the disk 3 Right click the disk icon and select Revert to Basic Disk 4 Create the partitions you want on the disk Configuring Dual or Multiple Boot SCSI Systems to Run with VMware Workstation on a Linux Host It may be possible to configure VMware Workstation so that you can use an operating system already installed and configured on a SCSI disk as a guest operating system inside a VMware Workstation virtual machine Using an existing SCSI disk or SCSI raw disk inside a virtual machine is supported only if the host has a BusLogic SCSI adapter It may be possible to configure a host 161 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 162 with a different SCSI adapter so the same operating system can be booted both natively and inside a virtual machine but this approach is not supported by VMware For details on some of the key issues involved see Known Issues and Background Information on Using SCSI Raw Disks on page 164 Before You Create the Virtual Machine Configuration You must create a separate configuration for each guest operating system Allow read and write access to the partitions used by that operating system only 1 Before starting if you are running a Windows guest operating system you should read Setting Up Hardware Profiles in Virtual Machines on page 154 You should boot the guest operating system natively on the computer and create a hardware profile for the virtual machine before p
154. do not work for your DHCP server program then it likely is old You can try upgrading to a more current version such as the DHCP software available from the ISC www isc org DHCP and Dynamic Domain Name Service DDNS DHCP can be used to hand out IP addresses as well as other information such as the identity of a host running a name server and the nearest router or gateway The DHCP server in VMware Workstation 4 does not provide a means to dynamically establish a relationship between the IP address it assigns and a client s name that is to update a DNS server using DDNS If you want to use names to communicate with other virtual machines you must either edit the DHCP configuration file for VMnet1 etc vmware vmnet1 conf or use IP addresses that are statically bound to a host name Editing the DHCP server configuration file requires information that is best obtained directly from the DHCP server documentation Consult the manual pages dhcpd 8 and dhcpd conf 8 Setting Up a Second Bridged Network Interface on a Linux Host If you have two Ethernet adapters installed on your host computer connected to two different networks you may want your virtual machines on that host computer to WwWwWww ymware com 210 CHAPTER 9 Networking bridge to both Ethernet adapters so the virtual machines can access either or both physical networks When you install VMware Workstation on a host computer with multiple Ethernet adapters you
155. dows 95 Windows 98 Windows 98SE and Windows NT 4 0 do not have drivers for the Sound Blaster Ensonig AudioPCl adapter To use sound in these guest operating systems you must download the driver from the Creative Labs Web site www creative com and install it in the guest operating system Creative Labs has a number of Web sites serving various regions of the world The adapter name varies depending on the region but usually includes AudioPCl At the time this document was written the driver was available on the Creative Labs North America Web site at www americas creative com support welcome asp centric 15 245 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 246 www vmware comM 11 Connecting Devices CHAPTER 11 247 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Using Devices with a Virtual Machine The following sections describe how to use various devices with a virtual machine Using Parallel Ports on page 250 Parallel Ports on page 250 Installation in Guest Operating Systems on page 250 e Configuring a Parallel Port on a Linux Host on page 251 e Special Notes for the lomega Zip Drive on page 253 Using Serial Ports on page 254 Using a Serial Port on the Host Computer on page 254 Using a File on the Host Computer on page 255 e Connecting an Application on the Host to a Virtual Machine on page 256 e Connecting Two Virtual Machines on page 258 e Special Configuration Options for Advanced Users on page 262 Examples Debugging over a Virtual S
156. dpipe gt that is it must begin with pipe 6 Select This end is the server 7 Select The other end is a virtual machine 8 By default the device status setting is Connect at power on You may deselect this setting if you wish Click Advanced if you want to configure this serial port to use polled mode This option is of interest primarily to developers who are using debugging tools that 259 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual communicate over a serial connection For more information see Special Configuration Options for Advanced Users on page 262 9 Click Finish then click OK to close the Virtual Machine Control Panel In the client virtual machine 1 Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings 2 Click Add to start the Add Hardware Wizard 3 Select Serial Port then click Next Add Hardware Wizard Specify Named Pipe Which named pipe should this serial port connect to Named pipe pipe com_1 This end is the client The other end is a virtual machine x Device status Connect at power on 4 Select Use named pipe 5 Use the default name or enter another pipe name of your choice The pipe name must follow the form pipe lt namedpipe gt that is it must begin with pipe The pipe name must be the same on both server and client 6 Select This end is the client 7 Select The other end is a virtual machine 8 By default the
157. e 136 Adding Drives to a Virtual Machine on page 138 e Adding Virtual Disks to a Virtual Machine on page 138 e Adding Raw Disks to a Virtual Machine on page 140 e Adding DVD or CD Drives to a Virtual Machine on page 142 e Adding Floppy Drives to a Virtual Machine on page 144 Configuring a Dual Boot Computer for Use with a Virtual Machine on page 146 e Configuring Dual or Multiple Boot Systems to Run with VMware Workstation on page 148 e Setting Up Hardware Profiles in Virtual Machines on page 154 Running a Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Virtual Machine from an Existing Multiple Boot Installation on page 157 e Setting Up the SVGA Video Driver for a Windows 95 Guest Operating System Booted from a Raw Disk on page 158 e Setting Up the SVGA Video Driver for Use with a Windows 98 Guest Operating System Booted from a Raw Disk on page 159 Do Not Use Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Dynamic Disks as Raw Disks on page 161 Do Not Use Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Dynamic Disks as Raw Disks on page 161 Installing an Operating System onto a Raw Partition from a Virtual Machine on page 166 e Configuring a Windows Host on page 166 e Configuring a Linux Host on page 169 Disk Performance in Windows NT Guests on Multiprocessor Hosts on page 171 130 TE seesrarcor CHAPTER 7 Using Disks Configuring Hard Disk Storage in a Virtual Machine Like a physical computer a VMware Workstation virt
158. e SVGA device if listed then click Remove 27 Select the Remove from Specific Configuration radio button then select Physical Machine from the configuration list 28 Click OK then reboot Windows 98 when prompted 29 Boot into Windows 98 natively and verify the display settings You should be able to use the display driver that you installed natively before starting this procedure Do Not Use Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Dynamic Disks as Raw Disks Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 support a disk type called a dynamic disk Dynamic disks use a proprietary Microsoft format for recording partition information This format is not publicly documented and thus is not supported for use in raw disk configurations under VMware Workstation Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 also support the older type of partition table Disks that use this type of partition table are called basic disks You can use the disk management tool to check the type of disk used on your Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 host and if it is a dynamic disk change it to basic Caution If you change a dynamic disk to a basic disk you lose all data on the disk Use this procedure to convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk 1 Open the disk management tool Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt Administrative Tools gt Computer Management gt Disk Management 2 Delete all logical volumes on the
159. e Workstation 4 before moving it To do so run the virtual machine under VMware Workstation 4 and use File gt Upgrade Virtual Hardware If you upgrade the virtual hardware you can then follow the instructions in Moving a VMware Workstation 4 Virtual Machine on page 119 If you upgrade the virtual machine you can no longer run it under VMware Workstation 3 If you need to run the virtual machine under both VMware Workstation 3 and VMware Workstation 4 do not upgrade the virtual hardware Follow the instructions in this section Note These instructions assume that you are using a virtual disk stored in a set of vmdk files on your host computer It s always safest to make backup copies of all the files in your virtual machine s directory before you start a process like this Virtual Machines May Have Relative or Absolute Paths Before VMware Workstation 3 1 the path names for all files associated with a virtual machine were absolute or fully qualified meaning the complete route to the files on the host was stored For example the absolute path to a virtual disk file might be C Documents and Settings lt user name gt My Documents My Virtual Machines lt machine name gt lt machine name gt vmdk With VMware Workstation 3 1 and higher path names to files are relative meaning the path to the each file is relative to the currently active directory For example if you are in the virtual machine s directory the relative path t
160. e Workstation software contains an ISO image that looks like a CD ROM to your guest operating system This image contains all the files needed to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system mount cdrom cd tmp tar zxf cdrom vmware freebsd tools tar gz umount cdrom 5 Run the VMware Tools installer cd vmware tools distrib viware install pl 6 Log out of the root account exit 7 Start X and your graphical environment 8 In an X terminal launch the VMware Tools background application vmware toolbox amp Note You may run VMware Tools as root or as a normal user To shrink virtual disks you must run VMware Tools as root su 83 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Note In a FreeBSD 4 5 guest operating system sometimes VMware Tools does not start after you install VMware Tools reboot the guest operating system or start VMware Tools on the command line in the guest An error message appears Shared object libc so 3 not found The required library was not installed This does not happen with full installations of FreeBSD 4 5 but does occur for minimal installations To fix the problem of the missing library take the following steps 1 Insert and mount the FreeBSD 4 5 installation CD or access the ISO image file 2 Change directories and run the installation script cd cdrom compat3x install sh 84 www vmware com CHAPTER 4 Creating a New Virtual Machine Installing VMware Tools in a NetWa
161. e from the VMware Web site or from the Help menu www vmware com 170 Disk Performance in Windows NT Guests on Multiprocessor Hosts Some users have seen slower than expected disk input and output performance when running Windows NT guest operating systems They see the problem in a VMware Workstation virtual machine using IDE virtual disks on a multiprocessor host computer The I O issue is especially noticeable when the virtual machine is booting Note Performance in Windows NT guest operating systems may also be affected by disk fragmentation on the host computer For details see Configuring and Maintaining the Host Computer on page 285 Improving Performance You may increase performance by enabling DMA direct memory access on the virtual hard disk s IDE channel in the virtual machine If you have a virtual disk and a DVD CD ROM attached as master and slave to the primary IDE controller channel 0 and you want to enable DMA power off the virtual machine and use the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings to move the DVD CD ROM drive to the secondary IDE controller channel 1 at IDE 1 0 You can enable the DMA feature after you finish installing Windows NT You must install Service Pack 3 or higher in the virtual machine to enable this option Once the virtual machine is running Windows NT insert an SP3 or SP4 CD in the drive and run DMACHECK EXE from the SUPPORT UTILS 1386 folder on the CD
162. e moving the virtual machine to a new host and have a network connection between the original host machine and the new host you are finished with the preparations on the original host Otherwise you need to have a way of moving the virtual disk vmdk files from the virtual machine s directory to the new host You could move them to a shared network directory for example or burn them to CD ROMs if they are not too large Once you know how you are going to move the virtual machine go to Moving a Virtual Machine to a New Host Machine on page 120 If you are moving this virtual machine to another directory on this host then you are ready to make the move Copy all the files in the virtual machine s original directory to the new location If you stored any files in directories 119 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual other than the virtual machine directory be sure to move them into a directory of the same name and same position relative to the location of the virtual machine Start VMware Workstation and open the new virtual machine you just created Choose File gt Open then browse to the virtual machine s configuration vmx file Moving a Virtual Machine to a New Host Machine 1 Make sure VMware Workstation is installed and working correctly on the new host computer 2 Create a directory for the virtual machine you are moving Locate the virtual disk files you are moving and copy them into the new directory Be sure to copy
163. e such file 65 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 66 The xxxxxx indicates a unique suffix added automatically by VMware Workstation to avoid duplicate file names lt vmname gt vmss the suspended state file which stores the state of a suspended virtual machine Note Some earlier VMware products used the extension std for suspended state files lt vmname gt vmsn the snapshot state file which stores the running state of a virtual machine at the time you take a snapshot of it lt vmname gt vmx sav or lt vmname gt cfg sav the configuration snapshot file which stores the configuration of a virtual machine at the time you take a snapshot of it There may be other files as well some of which are present only while a virtual machine is running Simple Steps to a New Virtual Machine By default the new virtual machine uses an IDE disk for Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows Me Windows XP Windows Server 2003 NetWare and FreeBSD guests The default for other guest operating systems is a SCSI disk Follow these steps to create a virtual machine using a virtual disk 1 Start VMware Workstation Windows hosts Double click the VMware Workstation icon on your desktop or use the Start menu Start gt Programs gt VMware gt VMware Workstation Linux hosts In a terminal window enter the command vmware amp 2 If this is the first time you have launched VMware Workstation and you did not enter the seri
164. e suspended 1 Start VMware Workstation and choose a virtual machine you have suspended 2 Click Resume on the VMware Workstation toolbar Note that any applications you were running at the time you suspended the virtual machine are running and the content is the same as it was when you suspended the virtual machine 175 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Using the Snapshot The snapshot feature is most useful when you want to preserve the state of the virtual machine so you can return to the same state repeatedly To simply save the current state of your virtual machine then pick up work later with the virtual machine in the same state it was when you stopped suspend the virtual machine For details see Using Suspend and Resume on page 175 You can take a snapshot of a virtual machine at any time and revert to that snapshot at any time You can take a snapshot while a virtual machine is powered on powered off or suspended A snapshot preserves the virtual machine just as it was when you took the snapshot the state of the data on all the virtual machine s disks and whether the virtual machine was powered on powered off or suspended Note Ifyou are using a legacy virtual machine a virtual machine created under VMware Workstation 3 and not upgraded to use the new VMware Workstation 4 virtual hardware you must power off the virtual machine before taking a snapshot For information on upgrading the virtual hardware see
165. e to make NAT available to your virtual machines DHCP server The DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol server provides IP network addresses to virtual machines in configurations that are not bridged to an external network for example host only and NAT configurations Network adapter One virtual network adapter is set up for your virtual machine when you create it with the New Virtual Machine Wizard using any type of networking It appears to the guest operating system as an AMD PCNET PCI adapter You can create and configure up to three virtual network adapters in each virtual machine using the Virtual Machine Control Panel CHAPTER 9 Networking 187 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Common Networking Configurations The following sections illustrate the networking configurations that are set up for you automatically when you choose the standard networking options in the New Virtual Machine Wizard or Virtual Machine Control Panel Only one virtual machine is shown in each example but multiple virtual machines can be connected to the same virtual Ethernet switch On a Windows host you can connect an unlimited number of virtual network devices to a virtual switch On a Linux host you can connect up to 32 devices Bridged Networking Virtual Ethernet adapter Virtual machine FERRER EES Virtual Ethernet switch VMnet0 Host 7 7 Ethernet Virtual bridge adapter Bridged networking connects a vir
166. e type of partition on which the operating system can be installed For example operating systems like DOS Windows 95 and Windows 98 must be installed on the first primary partition while others like Linux can be installed on a primary or extended partition on any part of the drive Identify an appropriate raw partition or disk for the guest operating system to use Check that the raw partition is not mounted by the Linux host and not in use by others Also be sure the raw partition or disk does not have data you will need in the future if it does back up that data now Check the operating system partition mounts Be sure the existing disk partitions that you plan to use in the virtual machine are not mounted by Linux Set the device group membership or device ownership The master raw disk device or devices need to be readable and writable by the user who runs VMware Workstation On most distributions the raw devices such as dev hda IDE raw disk and dev sdb SCSI raw disk belong to group id disk If this is the case you can add VMware Workstation users to the disk group Another option is to change the owner of the device Please think carefully about security issues when you explore different options here 169 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual It is a good idea to grant VMware Workstation users access to all dev hd abcd raw devices that contain operating systems or boot managers then rely on VMware Workstation s ra
167. eck box When you want to use a CD ROM in the virtual machine go to the Edit gt Removable Devices menu and connect the CD ROM drive 287 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Disk Options The various disk options SCSI versus IDE and types virtual or raw affect performance in a number of ways Inside a virtual machine SCSI disks and IDE disks that use direct memory access DMA have approximately the same performance However IDE disks can be very slow in a guest operating system that either cannot use or is not set to use DMA The easiest way to configure a Linux guest to use DMA for IDE drive access is to install VMware Tools File gt Install VMware Tools Among other things the installation process automatically sets IDE virtual drives to use DMA In Windows 2000 DMA access is enabled by default In other Windows guest operating systems the method for changing the setting varies with the operating system See the following technical notes for details Disk Performance in Windows NT Guests on Multiprocessor Hosts on page 171 Windows 95 and Windows 98 Guest Operating System Performance Tips on page 296 When a snapshot exists virtual disks often have very good performance for random or nonsequential access But they can potentially become so fragmented that performance is affected In order to defragment the disk you must first remove the Snapshot Snapshot gt Remove Snapshot When no snapshot exists raw disks and
168. ection offers advice for configuring a Windows 95 or Windows 98 guest operating system for better performance inside a VMware Workstation virtual machine Note This document pertains to the guest operating system that is running inside a VMware Workstation virtual machine It does not describe actions that should be taken on the host Guest Operating System Selection Make certain you have selected the correct guest operating system in the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings gt Options VMware Tools Make certain VMware Tools is installed VMware Tools provides an optimized SVGA driver and sets up the VMware Tools service to run automatically when the system starts Among other things the VMware Tools service allows you to synchronize the virtual machine s clock with the host computer s clock which can improve performance for some functions You can install VMware Tools by choosing File gt Install VMware Tools DMA Mode for IDE Disks Windows 95 OSR2 and later including Windows 98 can use direct memory access DMA for faster access to IDE hard disks However this feature may not be enabled by default You can turn on DMA access using the guest operating system s Device Manager 1 Right click My Computer and choose Properties from the pop up menu 2 Click the sign beside Disk Drives to show your virtual machine s individual drives 3 Right click the entry for each IDE drive to open its Proper
169. ectory Snapshot If you do not need to use the snapshot feature it is best to run your virtual machine with no snapshot This provides best performance To be sure a virtual machine has no snapshot choose Snapshot gt Remove Snapshot VMware Workstation on a Windows Host Note The items in this section describe performance of VMware Workstation on a Windows host For tips on configuring VMware Workstation on a Linux host see VMware Workstation on a Linux Host on page 290 Process Scheduling Note The information in this hint was created to address scheduling problems with Windows NT The issues are likely to be different in Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 however we do not currently have corresponding information for Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 hosts The process scheduler on Windows NT does not necessarily schedule processes in a way that allows you to get the best performance from your particular combination of virtual machines and applications running on the host VMware Workstation on a Windows host provides configuration options that let you adjust scheduling priorities to meet your needs These configuration options are available from the Edit gt Application Settings gt Priority and Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings gt Options gt Advanced menu options These menu items allow you to specify either high or normal priority when the mouse and keyboard are grabbed by the virtual machine a
170. ects the PCI Multimedia Audio device and installs the driver for the Creative AudioPCl 51 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 52 13 Windows detects an AMD PCNet adapter Select Automatic search and click Next Windows automatically installs the driver for the adapter 14 Click Finish to restart the virtual machine 15 Windows detects a Creative game port device and installs the driver automatically 16 Windows detects a game port joystick and installs the driver automatically 17 Windows detects the PCI SVGA adapter then it detects the VMware SVGA II adapter and installs the driver automatically 18 Click Yes to restart the virtual machine 19 If you have serial ports configured in the virtual machine go to the Windows Device Manager and uninstall all the COM ports listed there 20 Restart the virtual machine 21 Windows detects the COM ports and installs them properly Windows 2000 Guest The following steps provide examples of what you may see as your guest operating system recognizes the new virtual hardware The specific steps may vary depending on the configuration of the virtual machine 1 Power on the virtual machine and let it update the CMOS 2 Windows automatically installs the software for any devices it detects 3 Install the new version of VMware Tools For details see Installing VMware Tools on page 7 7 4 Shut down Windows and power off the virtual machine 5 Choose File gt Upgrade Virtu
171. ed the guest operating system detects the USB device and searches for a suitable driver When you are synchronizing a PDA such as a Palm handheld or Handspring Visor to a virtual machine for the first time the total time required to load the VMware USB device driver in the host and the PDA driver in the guest may exceed the device s connection timeout value This causes the device to disconnect itself from the computer before the guest can synchronize with it If this occurs let the guest finish installing the PDA driver dismiss any connection error warnings then try synchronizing the PDA again The second attempt should succeed Replacing USB 2 0 Drivers on a Windows 2000 Host To use VMware Workstation 4 on a Windows 2000 host that has USB 2 0 ports you must use the Microsoft USB 2 0 drivers for the USB controller in the host operating system If your host operating system is using a third party driver a driver supplied by your motherboard vendor for example you must replace it 275 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Take the following steps to check the provider of your driver 1 Go to the Device Manager Right click My Computer choose Properties click the Hardware tab then click Device Manager 2 Expand the listing for Universal Serial Bus controllers 3 Right click the listing for the controller and choose Properties 4 Click the Driver tab If the driver provider shown on that page is Microsoft you have the
172. ed as needed by the VMware Workstation software up to a total of nine switches You can connect one or more virtual machines to a switch A few of the switches and the networks associated with them are by default used for special named configurations The bridged network normally uses VMnet0 The host only network uses VMnet1 by default And the NAT network uses VMnet8 by default The others available networks are simply named VMnet2 VMnet3 VMnet4 and so on You connect a virtual machine to a switch by selecting the virtual network adapter you want to connect in the Virtual Machine Control Panel then configuring it to use the desired virtual network Bridge The bridge lets you connect your virtual machine to the LAN used by your host computer It connects the virtual network adapter in your virtual machine to the physical Ethernet adapter in your host computer The bridge is installed during VMware Workstation installation on a Linux host you must choose to make bridged networking available to your virtual machines It is set up automatically when you create a new virtual machine using bridged networking Additional virtual bridges can be set up for use in custom configurations that require connections to more than one physical Ethernet adapter on the host computer Host virtual adapter The host virtual adapter is a virtual Ethernet adapter that appears to your host operating system as a VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter on a
173. ed for Help system Linux Host Operating Systems Supported distributions and kernels are listed below VMware Workstation may not run on systems that do not meet these requirements Note As newer Linux kernels and distributions are released VMware modifies and tests its products for stability and reliability on those host platforms We make every effort to add support for new kernels and distributions in a timely manner but until a 17 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual kernel or distribution is added to the list below its use with our products is not supported Look for newer prebuilt modules in the download area of our Web site Go to www vmware com download Mandrake Linux 9 0 stock 2 4 19 Mandrake Linux 8 2 stock 2 4 18 6mdk Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2 1 stock 2 4 9 e3 Red Hat Linux 9 0 stock 2 4 20 13 9 Red Hat Linux 8 0 stock 2 4 18 Red Hat Linux 7 3 stock 2 4 18 Red Hat Linux 7 2 stock 2 4 7 10 upgrade 2 4 9 7 upgrade 2 4 9 13 upgrade 2 4 9 21 upgrade 2 4 9 31 Red Hat Linux 7 1 stock 2 4 2 2 upgrade 2 4 3 12 Red Hat Linux 7 0 stock 2 2 16 22 upgrade 2 2 17 14 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 stock 2 4 19 SuSE Linux 8 2 stock 2 4 20 SuSE Linux 8 1 stock 2 4 19 SuSE Linux 8 0 stock 2 4 18 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 stock 2 4 7 and patch 2 SuSE Linux 7 3 stock 2 4 10 Platforms not listed above are not supported Web browser required for Help system
174. ed off The Snapshot and the Virtual Machine s Hard Disks When a snapshot exists and the virtual machine saves data to disk that data is written to a set of redo log files These files have REDO as part of the filename and are stored in the virtual machine s working directory Newly saved data continues to accumulate in the redo log files until you take an action that affects the snapshot Remove the snapshot When you remove the snapshot the changes accumulated in the redo log files are written permanently to the base disks either the virtual disk files or the physical disks depending on your virtual machine s hard disk configuration This is similar to committing changes to a disk in VMware Workstation 3 Revert to the snapshot When you revert to the snapshot the contents of the redo log files are discarded Any additional changes are once again accumulated in the redo log files This is similar to discarding changes to a disk in VMware Workstation 3 Take a snapshot If you take a snapshot when the virtual machine already has a snapshot changes stored in the redo log files are written permanently to the 180 nn on CHAPTER 8 Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine base disk Then any subsequent changes are once again accumulated in the redo log files The Snapshot and Other Activity in the Virtual Machine When you take a snapshot be aware of other activity going on in the virtual machine and the likely
175. ed with version 3 If you still have virtual disks using the dsk extension and if you are storing virtual disk files on a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 host it is especially important that you allow VMware Workstation to make this change in order to avoid conflicts with the Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 System Restore feature The vmdk extension can be used for virtual disks under any VMware product VMware Workstation 4 automatically updates references to the virtual disk files in configuration files on the host computer If you are using the same virtual disk file from any other computer you need to update the configuration files with the new filename For details see Updating Filenames for Virtual Disks Created with Earlier VMware Products on page 135 Use an Existing Virtual Machine and Upgrade the Virtual Hardware If you use an existing virtual machine and upgrade the virtual hardware you gain access to new features but the process is one way you cannot reverse it Start by using an existing configuration file vmx and virtual disk vmdk or dsk Upgrade VMware Tools to the new version following the instructions for your guest operating system in Installing VMware Tools on page 77 You should not remove the older version of VMware Tools before installing the new version Upgrade the virtual hardware so you can take advantage of improved sound quality support for taking a snapshot while the virtual machine is run
176. ems and systems using server versions of Windows 2000 are capable of forwarding IP packets that are not addressed to them By default however these systems come with IP packet forwarding disabled IP forwarding is not an issue on 205 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Windows 2000 Professional Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Home Edition hosts If you find packets leaking out of a host only network on a Windows NT or Windows 2000 host computer check to see if forwarding has been enabled on the host machine If it is enabled disable it On a Windows NT host go to Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt Networking Choose TCP IP click Properties then click the Routing tab Clear the check box to disable IP forwarding On a Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 host go to Start gt Programs gt Administrative Tools gt Routing and Remote Access An icon on the left is labeled with the host name If a green dot appears over the icon IP forwarding is turned on To turn it off right click the icon and disable Routing and Remote Access A red dot appears indicating that IP forwarding is disabled Windows 2000 Professional Users The Windows 2000 Administration Tools are not installed on a Windows 2000 Professional system However you can install these tools from a Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2000 Advanced Server CD ROM To install Windows 2000 Administration Tools on a local computer 1 Open the i386 folder on the app
177. en the Virtual Machine Control Panel select the device you want to modify and make your changes Click OK to save your changes and close the Virtual Machine Control Panel To remove a device open the Virtual Machine Control Panel click the name of the device you want to remove then click Remove Click OK to close the Virtual Machine Control Panel 109 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Connecting and Disconnecting Removable Devices Choose Edit gt Removable Devices to connect and disconnect removable devices that you have configured for your virtual machine including floppy drives DVD CD ROM drives USB devices and Ethernet adapters while the virtual machine is running When you choose Edit gt Removable Devices a submenu appears Choose a device from that menu to connect or disconnect it and to edit device settings If you choose Edit a dialog box appears Make all the changes you want to make then click OK Creating a Screen Shot of a Virtual Machine You can capture a screen shot of a virtual machine using File gt Capture Screen You can save this image as a bitmap bmp file on a Windows host or as a portable network graphics png file on a Linux host Setting Preferences for VMware Workstation The Preferences dialog box allows you to change a number of settings that apply to VMware Workstation itself no matter what virtual machine you are running The settings under Preferences apply to the user curre
178. encounter device failure messages and delays during this initial boot 6 Windows Server 2003 Windows XP and Windows 2000 guests After you log on to Windows Server 2003 Windows XP or Windows 2000 now running as a guest operating system you should see a Found New Hardware dialog box for the video controller as Plug and Play runs and discovers the virtual hardware Do not install drivers at this time Click Cancel to close the Found New Hardware dialog box Do not reboot the virtual machine Click No in the System Settings Change Reboot dialog box Windows Server 2003 Windows XP or Windows 2000 automatically detects and loads the driver for the AMD PCnet PCI Ethernet card At this point you should install VMware Tools inside the virtual machine Allow the virtual machine to reboot after VMware Tools has been installed Once Windows Server 2003 Windows XP or Windows 2000 reboots inside the virtual machine select a new SVGA resolution from the Settings tab of the Display Properties dialog box to increase the size of the virtual machine s display window Windows 95 and Windows 98 guests You should see New Hardware Detected dialog boxes as Plug and Play runs and discovers the virtual hardware Windows prompts you for locations to search for device drivers Most of the device drivers are available in the existing operating system installation but you may need the installation CD ROM for some networking device drivers Windows also asks you to
179. ent location or if you are moving the automatically created disk files to a new location The disk files for a virtual disk store the information that you write to a virtual machine s hard disk the operating system the program files and the data files The virtual disk files have a vmdk extension A virtual disk is made up of one or more vmdk files On Windows hosts each virtual disk is contained in one file by default You may as an option configure the virtual disk to use a set of files limited to 2GB per file Use this option if you plan to move the virtual disk to a file system that does not support files larger than 2GB You must set this option at the time the virtual disk is created If you are setting up a new virtual machine in the New Virtual Machine Wizard follow the Custom path In the screen that allows you to specify the virtual disk s capacity select Split disk into 2GB files If you are adding a virtual disk to an existing virtual machine follow the steps in the Add Hardware Wizard In the screen that allows you to specify the virtual disk s capacity select Split disk into 2GB files When a disk is split into multiple files larger virtual disks have more vmdk files 133 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual The first vmdk file for each disk is small and contains pointers to the other files that make up the virtual disk The other vmdk files contain data stored by your virtual machine and use a s
180. enu choose Snapshot gt Remove Snapshot Ways of Using the Snapshot The following examples illustrate the most common ways you can use the snapshot No Snapshot If you do not take a snapshot your virtual machine runs the same way a physical computer does All changes you make while you are working with a virtual machine are saved and you cannot return to an earlier state If you do not need to use the snapshot feature it is best to run your virtual machine with no snapshot This provides best performance To be sure a virtual machine has no snapshot choose Snapshot gt Remove Snapshot Making Risky Changes If you plan to make risky changes in a virtual machine for example testing new software or examining a virus take a snapshot before you begin to make those risky wWwww vmMware comM 178 CHAPTER 8 Preserving the State of a Virtual Machine changes If you encounter a problem click Revert to return the virtual machine to its state at the time you took the snapshot If the first action you take causes no problems and you want to protect the virtual machine in its new state you can take a new snapshot You can have only one Snapshot at a given time When you take the new snapshot you replace your previous Snapshot You do not lose any data Starting a Virtual Machine Repeatedly in the Same State You can configure the virtual machine to revert to the snapshot any time it is powered off To do so go to Edit gt Virtual
181. er 2003 Dynamic Disks as Raw Disks on page 161 Windows XP Caution Running a Windows XP guest from a raw disk is not supported You should not test a Windows XP raw disk configuration in a production environment Configuring Dual or Multiple Boot Systems to Run with VMware Workstation on page 148 Running a Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Virtual Machine from an Existing Multiple Boot Installation on page 157 Do Not Use Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Dynamic Disks as Raw Disks on page 161 Windows 2000 Configuring Dual or Multiple Boot Systems to Run with VMware Workstation on page 148 Running a Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Virtual Machine from an Existing Multiple Boot Installation on page 157 Do Not Use Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Dynamic Disks as Raw Disks on page 161 147 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Windows NT Configuring Dual or Multiple Boot Systems to Run with VMware Workstation on page 148 Windows 98 Configuring Dual or Multiple Boot Systems to Run with VMware Workstation on page 148 Setting Up the SVGA Video Driver for Use with a Windows 98 Guest Operating System Booted from a Raw Disk on page 159 Windows 95 Configuring Dual or Multiple Boot Systems to Run with VMware Workstation on page 148 Setting Up the SVGA Video Driver for a Windows 95 Guest Operating System Booted from a Raw Disk on page 158 SCSI Systems Using a Linux
182. er virtual machine The key log file to save is the VMware log file for the affected virtual machine on a Windows host the vmware log file in the same directory as the configuration file vmx of the virtual machine that had problems on a Linux host the lt vmname gt log or vmware 1log file in the same directory as the configuration file c g of the virtual machine that had problems Also save any core files core or vmware core Provide these to VMware along with any other information that might help us to reproduce the problem If you are reporting a problem you encountered while installing VMware Workstation it is also helpful to have your installation log file 24 www vmware comM CHAPTER 1 Introduction and System Requirements On a Windows host the file is VMInst log It is saved in your temp folder On a Windows NT host the default location is C temp On a Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 host the default location is C Documents and Settings lt username gt Local Settings Temp The Local Settings folder is hidden by default To see its contents open My Computer go to Tools gt Folder Options click the View tab and select Show Hidden Files and Folders Be sure to register your serial number You may then report your problems by submitting a support request at www vmware com requestsupport 25 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 26 Fico 2 Installing VMware Workstation CHAPTER 2
183. erial Port on page 263 Keyboard Mapping on a Linux Host on page 266 e Quick Answers on page 266 The Longer Story on page 266 V Scan Code Table on page 269 Using USB Devices in a Virtual Machine on page 274 Notes on USB Support in Version 4 on page 274 Enabling and Disabling the USB Controller on page 274 e Connecting USB Devices on page 274 Using USB with a Windows Host on page 275 Replacing USB 2 0 Drivers on a Windows 2000 Host on page 275 Using USB with a Linux Host on page 276 e Who Has Control over a USB Device on page 276 Disconnecting USB Devices from a Virtual Machine on page 277 Human Interface Devices on page 278 Connecting to a Generic SCSI Device on page 279 www vmware comM 248 CHAPTER 11 Connecting Devices e Generic SCSI on a Windows Host Operating System on page 279 Generic SCSI on a Linux Host Operating System on page 281 249 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Using Parallel Ports VMware Workstation supports a partial emulation of bidirectional PS 2 style ports On Linux hosts VMware Workstation requires that the parallel port PC style hardware option CONFIG_PARPORT_PC be built and loaded as a kernel module that is it must be set to m VMware Workstation is unable to use parallel port devices if CONFIG_PARPORT_PC is built directly compiled into the kernel This limitation exists because CONFIG_PARPORT_PC does not correctly export its symbols Parallel Ports Parallel ports are used
184. ermissions on a Generic SCSI Device You must have read and write permissions on a given generic SCSI device in order to use the device within a virtual machine even if the device is a read only device such as a CD ROM drive These devices typically default to root only permissions Your administrator should create a group with access to read and write to these devices then add the appropriate users to that group 281 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Device Support In theory generic SCSI is completely device independent but VMware has discovered it is sensitive to the guest operating system device class and specific SCSI hardware We encourage you to try any SCSI hardware you want to use and report problems to VMware technical support Note If you are using generic SCSI devices in a Windows 95 Windows 98 or Windows Me guest operating system and are experiencing problems with the devices download the latest Mylex BusLogic BT KT 958 compatible host bus adapter from www lsilogic com This driver overrides what Windows chooses as the best driver but it corrects known problems To use SCSI devices in a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 virtual machine you need a special SCSI driver available from the download section of the VMware Web site at www vmware com download Adding a Generic SCSI Device to a Virtual Machine You can add generic SCSI devices to your virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Control Panel The Virtual Machine Contr
185. es dialog box select Internet Protocol TCP IP then click Properties 4 Inthe TCP IP Properties dialog box click Advanced 5 Click the WINS tab then click Add 6 Inthe TCP IP WINS Server dialog box enter the IP address for the WINS server in the WINS server field then click OK The IP address of the WINS server appears in the WINS addresses list on the WINS tab Repeat steps 5 and 6 for each WINS server to which you want to connect from this virtual machine 7 Click OK twice then click Close Now that the virtual machine has an IP address for a WINS server you use NetLogon in the virtual machine to log on to a domain and access shares in that domain For example if the WINS server covers a domain with a domain controller it is possible to access that domain controller from the virtual machine and add the virtual machine to the domain You need to know the user ID and password of the Administrator on the domain controller Note Your access is limited to shares of virtual machines that are on the same NAT network or are bridged on the same domain Sample Linux vmnetnat conf File Linux NAT configuration file host NAT gateway address ip 192 168 237 2 24 hostMAC 00 50 56 C0 00 08 enable configuration disabled by default for security reasons configport 33445 VMnet device if not specified on command line 228 S e device VMnet8 Allow PORT EPRT FTP commands they need incoming TCP stream
186. est operating system is communicating directly with the drive In addition certain drives and their drivers do not work correctly in raw mode Selecting Legacy emulation is a way to work around these problems Adding Floppy Drives to a Virtual Machine You can add floppy drives to your virtual machine to a total of two floppy drives A virtual floppy drive can connect to a physical floppy drive on the host computer to an existing floppy image file or to a blank floppy image file Adding a Floppy Drive 1 Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings and click Add to start the Add Hardware Wizard 2 Click Floppy Drive then click Next 3 Select what you want to connect to a physical floppy drive on the host computer an existing floppy image file or a new floppy image file Click Next 1 44 www vmMware com 4 Ifyou selected Use a physical floppy drive choose the drive s letter on a Windows host or device name on a Linux host from the drop down list then click Finish If you selected Use a floppy image type the path and filename for the floppy image file you want to use or click Browse to navigate to the file Click Finish If you selected Create a blank floppy image use the default path and filename or type in a new one To navigate to a location click Browse When the field contains the path and filename you want to use for the new floppy image file click Finish Connecting a CD RO
187. f the common configurations bridged networking network address translation NAT and host only networking by selecting the Custom setup path The wizard then connects the virtual machine to the appropriate virtual network You can set up more specialized configurations by choosing the appropriate settings in the Virtual Machine Control Panel in the Virtual Network Editor on Windows hosts and on your host computer On a Windows host the software needed for all networking configurations is installed when you install VMware Workstation On a Linux host all components are available if you choose to have both bridged and host only networking available to your virtual machines at the time you install VMware Workstation The first topics in this section give you a quick look at the virtual networking components that VMware Workstation provides and show how you can use them with your virtual machine The rest of the section provides more detail on some networking capabilities and specialized configurations Components of the Virtual Network on page 186 Common Networking Configurations on page 188 Bridged Networking on page 188 Network Address Translation NAT on page 189 Host Only Networking on page 190 Custom Networking Configurations on page 192 Changing the Networking Configuration on page 195 e Adding and Modifying Virtual Network Adapters on page 195 e Configuring Bridged Networking Options on a Windows Host on page 196 Enabling Di
188. f the virtual machine Click Power Off 4 Now it is safe to exit VMware Workstation File gt Exit If you are using a different quest operating system the procedure is similar Follow the usual steps to shut down the guest operating system inside your virtual machine then turn off the virtual machine with the Power Off button and exit VMware Workstation Adding Configuring and Removing Devices in a Virtual Machine The Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings is the control center where you can add devices to a virtual machine change the settings for those devices and remove them Virtual Machine Control Panel Hardware Options Device Summary Device status Memory 224 MB aes Godard Disk 1 IDE 0 0 5co Rom 1 IDE 1 0 Auto detect Floppy 1 Using drive 4 Bridged Connected directly to the physical network Qus Controller Present O NAT Used to share the host s IP address Audio Default adapter Connect at power on Connect to the following network O Host only A private network shared with the hast Custom Specific virtual network C Update the snapshot after changing settings To add a new device open the Virtual Machine Control Panel click Add then follow the instructions in the Add New Hardware Wizard to add the new device to your virtual machine Click OK to save your changes and close the Virtual Machine Control Panel To change settings for a device op
189. figuration on page 195 Host Only Networking Virtual Ethernet adapter onon EO RE Bon ff Virtual machine DHCP server Virtual Ethernet switch VMnet1 Host virtual adapter Host only networking creates a network that is completely contained within the host computer A host only network is set up automatically if you select Use Host Only Networking in the New Virtual Machine Wizard On Linux hosts this selection is available only if you enabled the host only networking option when you installed VMware Workstation 190 TE seerrecom Host only networking provides a network connection between the virtual machine and the host computer using a virtual Ethernet adapter that is visible to the host operating system This approach can be useful if you need to set up an isolated virtual network If you use host only networking your virtual machine and the host virtual adapter are connected to a private TCP IP network Addresses on this network are provided by the VMware DHCP server If you make some other selection in the New Virtual Machine Wizard and later decide you want to use host only networking you can make that change in the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings For details see Changing the Networking Configuration on page 195 CHAPTER 9 Networking Routing and Connection Sharing e Ifyou install the proper routing or proxy software on your host computer you can establish a
190. file that stores access information for this raw disk or change it if you want to use a different name or location To find a different directory click Browse Click Advanced if you want to specify the virtual machine SCSI or IDE device node to which this disk is connected 141 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Add Hardware Wizard Select a Device Node Which device node should this disk be attached to Virtual device node IDE 0 1 Mode C Independent Independent disks are not affected by snapshots tent Changes are immediately and permanently written to the d Nonpersistent Changes to this disk are discarded when you poweroff or revert to the pshot On the advanced settings screen you can also specify a disk mode This is useful in certain special purpose configurations in which you want to exclude disks from the snapshot For more information on the snapshot feature see Using the Snapshot on page 176 Normal disks are included in the snapshot In most cases this is the setting you want Independent disks are not included in the snapshot You have the following options for an independent disk Persistent changes are immediately and permanently written to the disk Nonpersistent changes to the disk are discarded when you power off or revert to the snapshot When you have set the filename and location you want to use and have made any selections you want to make on the advanced settings screen cl
191. filename For details see Updating Filenames for Virtual Disks Created with Earlier VMware Products on page 135 Linux hosts The first time you run a virtual machine after installing VMware Workstation 4 Workstation offers to convert virtual disk dsk filenames to use the vmdk extension introduced with version 3 If you still have virtual disks using the dsk extension and if you are storing virtual disk files on a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 host it is especially important that you allow VMware Workstation to make this change in order to avoid conflicts with the Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 System Restore feature The vmdk extension can be used for virtual disks under any VMware product VMware Workstation 4 automatically updates references to the virtual disk files in configuration files on the host computer If you are using the same virtual disk file from any other computer you need to update the configuration files with the new filename For details see Updating Filenames for Virtual Disks Created with Earlier VMware Products on page 135 Upgrading Virtual Hardware in the Guest Operating System If you are using a virtual machine created under VMware Workstation 3 the first time you power on the virtual machine under VMware Workstation 4 Workstation updates the CMOS As a result your guest operating system may detect hardware changes and install new drivers for the new hardware even if you do not choose File gt Upgrade
192. fter VMware Workstation Installation If you were running the DHCP server program dhepd on your machine before installing VMware Workstation it probably was configured to respond to DHCP requests from clients on any network interface present on the machine When host only networking is configured an additional network interface VMnet1 is marked up and available for use and dhepd may notice this 209 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual In such cases some dhepd implementations abort if their configuration files do not include a subnet specification for the interface even if dhcpd is not supposed to respond to messages that arrive through the interface The best solution to this problem is to add a line in the following format to the dhcpd configuration file subnet lt net gt 0 netmask 255 255 255 0 lt net gt is the network number assigned to your host only network for example 192 168 0 This line in the configuration file informs dhepd about the host only network and tells it explicitly not to respond to any DHCP requests it sees coming from it An alternative solution is to explicitly state the set of network interfaces that you want dhepd to listen to each time you start the program For example if your machine has one Ethernet interface eth0 then each time you start dhepa list it on the command line dhcpd etho This keeps dhepd from probing for all available network interfaces If the above solutions
193. g system depends on the screen color setting of the host operating system Virtual machines support 16 color VGA mode 8 bit pseudocolor 16 bits per pixel 16 significant bits per pixel 32 bits per pixel 24 significant bits per pixel If the host is in 15 bit color mode the guest operating system s color setting controls offer 15 bit mode in place of 16 bit mode If the host is in 24 bit color mode the guest operating system s color setting controls offer 24 bit mode in place of 32 bit mode If you run a guest operating system set for a greater number of colors than your host operating system is using you can encounter various problems In some cases for example the colors in the guest are not correct In others the guest operating system is not able to use a graphical interface In such a case you can either increase the number of colors available on the host or decrease the number of colors used in the guest For best performance use the same number of colors in the guest and on the host Changing Screen Color Depth on the Host If you choose to change the color settings on your host operating system you should first shut down all guest operating systems power off the virtual machines and close VMware Workstation Follow standard procedures for changing the color settings on your host operating system then restart VMware Workstation and the virtual machines Changing Screen Color Depth in the Virtual Machine If y
194. g system natively on the host computer then switch to running it inside a virtual machine the change is like pulling the hard drive out of one computer and installing it in a second computer with a different motherboard and other hardware You need to prepare carefully for such a switch The specific steps you need to take depend on the operating system you want to use inside the virtual 132 Fico CHAPTER 7 Using Disks machine For details see Configuring a Dual Boot Computer for Use with a Virtual Machine on page 146 You can also create a new virtual machine using a raw disk For details see Installing an Operating System onto a Raw Partition from a Virtual Machine on page 166 In most cases however it is better to use a virtual disk Only expert users should attempt raw disk configurations Note You should not use a raw disk to share files between host and guest operating systems It is not safe to make the same partition visible to both host and guest You can cause data corruption if you do this To share files between host and guest operating systems use shared folders For details see Using Shared Folders on page 104 File Locations Disk Files The Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings allows you to choose the disk files for a virtual machine You may want to choose a file other than the one created by the New Virtual Machine Wizard if you are using a virtual disk that you created in a differ
195. g systems and applications that work best for you VMware Workstation 4 provides support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Red Hat Linux 8 0 and 9 0 Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2 1 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 2 1 SUSE Linux 8 0 8 1 8 2 and Enterprise Server 8 and Mandrake Linux 9 0 New User Interface The Linux user interface is updated throughout and includes a completely revamped Virtual Machine Control Panel Windows hosts have an updated Favorites list And on both hosts you can run multiple virtual machines in the same window and tab from one to another using the new quick switch mode See Running VMware Workstation on page 91 for details Network Settings Windows Host The Virtual Network Editor for Windows hosts now provides a graphical interface you can use to change the configuration of the DHCP servers running on your virtual networks It also lets you configure the NAT device and the host virtual adapters See Changing the Networking Configuration on page 195 for details 15 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Host System Requirements What do you need to get the most out of VMware Workstation 4 Take the following list of requirements as a starting point Remember that the virtual machines running under VMware Workstation are like physical computers in many ways and like physical computers they generally perform better if they have faster processors and more memory Note VMware Wor
196. gt Virtual Machine Settings Select the virtual disk you want to defragment then click Defragment Defragmenting disks may take considerable time Note The defragmentation process requires free working space on the host computer s disk If your virtual disk is contained in a single file for example you need free space equal to the size of the virtual disk file Other virtual disk configurations require less free space When a virtual machine is powered on you can shrink its virtual disks from the VMware Tools control panel You cannot shrink virtual disks if a snapshot exists To remove the snapshot if one exists choose Snapshot gt Remove Snapshot 1 To launch the control panel in a Windows guest double click the VMware Tools icon in the system tray or choose Start gt Settings gt Control Panel then double click VMware Tools To launch the control panel in a Linux or FreeBSD guest become root su then run vmware toolbox 2 Click the Shrink tab 3 Select the virtual disks you want to shrink then click Prepare to Shrink 136 nn on CHAPTER 7 Using Disks The shrink tool reclaims unused space in the virtual disk If there is empty space in the disk this process reduces the amount of space the virtual disk occupies on the host drive Shrinking disks may take considerable time In some configurations it is not possible to shrink virtual disks If your virtual machine uses such a configuration the Shrink tab di
197. hat only root can put a network interface into promiscuous mode When you install and configure VMware Workstation you must run the installation as root VMware Workstation creates the VMnet devices with root ownership and root group ownership which means that only root has read and write permissions to the devices To set the virtual machine s Ethernet adapter to promiscuous mode you must launch VMware Workstation as root because you must have read and write access to the VMnet device For example if you are using bridged networking you must have access to dev vmneto To grant selected other users read and write access to the VMnet device you can create a new group add the appropriate users to the group and grant that group read and write access to the appropriate device You must make these changes on the host operating system as root su For example you can enter the following commands chgrp lt newgroup gt dev vmnet0 chmod g rw dev vmnet0 lt newgroup gt is the group that should have the ability to set vmnet0 to promiscuous mode If you want all users to be able to set the virtual Ethernet Adapter dev vmnet0 in our example to promiscuous mode you can simply run the following command on the host operating system as root chmod atrw dev vmneto0 219 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Understanding NAT Network address translation or NAT is a networking option that first appeared in VMware Workstation 3
198. have one byte scan codes but some keys have two byte scan codes with prefix Oxe0 Internally VMware Workstation uses a simplified version of the PC scan code that is a single nine bit numeric value called a v scan code A v scan code is written as a three digit hexadecimal number The first digit is O or 1 For example the left hand Ctrl key 266 o omn CHAPTER 11 Connecting Devices has a one byte scan code 0x1d its v scan code is 0x01d The right hand Ctrl key scan code is two bytes OxeO Ox1d its v scan code is Ox11d An X server uses a two level encoding of keys An X key code is a one byte value The assignment of key codes to keys depends on the X server implementation and the physical keyboard As a result an X application normally cannot use key codes directly Instead the key codes are mapped into keysyms that have names like space escape x and 2 The mapping can be controlled by an X application via the function XChangeKeyboardMapping or by the program xmodmap To explore keyboard mappings you can use xev which shows the key codes and keysyms for keys typed into its window To recap a key code corresponds roughly to a physical key while a keysym corresponds to the symbol on the key top For example with an XFree86 server running on a PC the Z key on the German keyboard has the same key code as the Y key on an English keyboard The German Z keysym however is the same as the English Z keysym and different from t
199. he older distributions may have the Append memz parameter added under the Imagee section of lilo conf to tell Linux to look for more memory than seen by default If the amount of memory configured in lilo conf exceeds the amount of memory assigned to the virtual machine the guest operating system is likely to panic when the virtual machine tries to boot the second Linux installation You can create another entry in Lilo con for running Linux in a virtual machine by specifying a different amount of memory than what should normally be recognized when Linux boots directly on the physical machine Setting Up the Virtual Machine Configuration if 2 Start VMware Workstation Start the New Virtual Machine Wizard File gt New gt New Virtual Machine and select Custom When you reach the Select a Disk step select Use a physical disk CHAPTER 7 Using Disks 163 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Known Issues and Background Information on Using SCSI Raw Disks Geometry In some cases it is not possible to boot a raw SCSI drive inside a virtual machine because the SCSI adapter in the physical computer and the BusLogic adapter in the virtual machine describe the drive in different ways The virtual machine might hang during the boot VMware Workstation might crash or VMware Workstation might fail with an ASSERT or other error message This problem is most likely to affect smaller drives less than 2GB In order
200. he virtual machine does not appear to be busy Torun without dev rtc disconnect it using theVMware Workstation menu While the virtual machine is running go to Edit gt Removable Devices gt RTC gt Disconnect This may not make a critical difference in performance but it can help reduce the load on the host 291 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Memory Usage Notes VMware Workstation allows users to set the memory size of each virtual machine and the amount of physical host memory reserved for virtual machines By adjusting the memory sizes of each virtual machine and the amount of reserved memory users can affect both virtual machine and overall system performance This section describes how VMware Workstation uses the memory configuration parameters to manage virtual machines and reserved memory properly Virtual Machine Memory Size The first configuration parameter users can set is the size of the virtual machine s physical memory Set this configuration parameter in the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings gt Memory The minimum size of the memory for the virtual machine should be set based on the recommendations of the operating system provider The New Virtual Machine Wizard sets what we believe are reasonable defaults for the memory size of a virtual machine based on the type of the guest operating system and the amount of memory in the host computer The actual size that should be gi
201. he English Y keysym For an XFree86 server on a PC there is a one to one mapping from X key codes to PC scan codes or v scan codes which is what VMware Workstation really uses VMware Workstation takes advantage of this fact When it is using an XFree86 server on the local host it uses the built in mapping from X key codes to v scan codes This mapping is keyboard independent and should be correct for most if not all languages In other cases not an XFrees6 server or not a local server VMware Workstation must map keysyms to v scan codes using a set of keyboard specific tables Key code mapping is simple automatic and foolproof Keysym mapping is more complex and described later However because the program cannot tell whether a remote server is running on a PC or on some other kind of computer it errs on the safe side and uses key code mapping only with local X servers This is often too conservative and has undesirable effects Luckily this and other behavior related to key code mapping can be controlled by powering off the virtual machine and closing the VMware Workstation window then using a text editor to add configuration settings to the virtual machine s configuration file xkeymap usekeycodeMaplIfXFree86 true Use key code mapping if you are using an XFree86 server even if it is remote xkeymap usekeycodeMap true Always use key code mapping regardless of server type xkeymap nokeycodeMap true Never use key code ma
202. he VMware Tools service allows you to synchronize the virtual machine s clock with the host computer s clock which can improve performance for some functions You can install VMware Tools by choosing File gt Install VMware Tools Disconnect CD ROM and dev rtc Using the Edit gt Removable Devices menu disconnect your CD ROM drive if you do not need to use it If you are using a Linux host also disconnect dev rte Disconnecting these devices reduces CPU usage Note The time synchronization feature in VMware Tools does not rely on dev xrtc Install in Text Mode When you are installing your Linux guest operating system use the text mode installer instead of the graphical installer if you have a choice This makes the installation process faster If you do use a graphical installer and if you are using a Linux host computer try to run VMware Workstation in full screen mode during the installation Full Screen Mode Run your virtual machine in full screen mode Click the Full Screen button on the VMware Workstation toolbar 300 o on 13 Special Purpose Configuration Options CHAPTER 13 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Using Special Purpose Configurations The following sections describe how to use special purpose configuration options Locking Out Interface Features on page 303 Restricting the User Interface on page 305 Automatically Returning to a Snapshot with a Restricted User Interface on page 306 In some s
203. he host and a virtual machine take the following steps Windows Host is a 2 4 Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings Click Add to start the Add Hardware Wizard Select Serial Port then click Next Add Hardware Wizard Serial Port Type What media should this virtual serial port access Serial port Use physical serial port on the host Output to file Output to named pipe Select Output to named pipe then click Next Add Hardware Wizard Specify Named Pipe Which named pipe should this serial port connect to Named pipe pipe com_1 This end is the server The other end is an application Device status Connect at power on lt Back Finish Cancel Use the default pipe name or enter another pipe name of your choice The pipe name must follow the form pipe lt namedpipe gt that is it must begin with pipe Select This end is the server or This end is the client In general select This end is the server if you plan to start this end of the connection first Select The other end is an application By default the device status setting is Connect at power on You may deselect this setting if you wish Click Advanced if you want to configure this serial port to use polled mode This option is of interest primarily to developers who are using debugging tools that CHAPTER 11 Connecting Devices 257 VMware Wo
204. he software the steps are the same except that you start from the directory where you saved the installer file you downloaded not from the Linux directory on the CD l Log on to your Linux host with the user name you plan to use when running VMware Workstation In a terminal window become root so you can perform the initial installation steps Su Mount the VMware Workstation CD ROM Change to the Linux directory on the CD Do one of the following e To use the RPM installer run RPM specifying the installation file rpm Uhv VMware lt xxx gt rpm VMware lt xxx gt rpmis the installation file on the CD in place of lt xxx gt the filename contains numbers that correspond to the version and build Note If you are upgrading from VMware Workstation 3 0 you must take a special step before you install the RPM package You need to remove the prebuilt modules RPM package included in the 3 0 release To remove the modules type the following at a command prompt rpm e VMwareWorkstationKernelModules e To use the tar installer you may copy a tar archive to your hard disk and install following the directions below Or you may skip the steps for copying and unpacking the archive and install directly from the vmware distrib directory on the CD Copy the tar archive to a directory on your hard drive for example to tmp cp VMware lt xxx gt tar gz tmp Change to the directory to which you copied the file cd tmp Un
205. he steps listed under the name of your guest operating system With other guest operating systems these special steps are not needed Plug and Play should recognize the new virtual hardware and install any needed drivers smoothly Windows Me Guest 1 Power on the virtual machine 2 Allow Workstation to upgrade the virtual hardware 3 Click OK to dismiss the message A legacy SVGA driver has been detected 58 www vmMware com 2 CHAPTER 3 Upgrading VMware Workstation Several Plug and Play messages appear You can safely ignore them Log on to Windows Me More Plug and Play messages appear One refers to the VMware SVGA driver Click Yes to restart your computer Log on to Windows Me The SVGA driver is not working properly From the Windows Start menu choose Settings gt Control Panel gt System gt Device Manager gt Display Adapters Manually remove the two SVGA drivers Restart Windows Me A VMware SVGA II adapter is detected and Windows installs it Windows notifies you to restart your computer Click Yes The SVGA driver should be working correctly 10 Install the new version of VMware Tools See Installing VMware Tools on page 77 for details Windows 98 Guest k A 3 Power on the virtual machine Allow Workstation to upgrade the virtual hardware Click OK to dismiss the message A legacy SVGA driver has been detected Log on to Windows 98 You see a number of Plug and Play messages
206. he virtual machine are disabled enabledevice lt device name gt Enables the specified device or devices in the virtual machine If no device is specified then all removable devices in the virtual machine are enabled synctime on off Lets you turn on or off synchronization of time in the guest operating system with time on the host operating system By default time synchronization is turned off Use this command without any options to view the current time synchronization status You can synchronize the time in the guest operating system with time on the host operating system only when the time in the guest operating system is earlier than the time set in the host idle on off Lets you turn on or off the CPU idler By default the idler is turned on The CPU idler program is included in VMware Tools for NetWare guests The idler program is needed because NetWare servers do not idle the CPU when the operating system is idle As a result a virtual machine takes CPU time from the host regardless of whether the NetWare server software is idle or busy 89 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 90 Twi gt Running VMware Workstation CHAPTER 5 91 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 92 A Quick Guide to Running VMware Workstation After you have installed VMware Workstation a guest operating system and VMware Tools how do you run your virtual machine The following sections give you highlights of the most co
207. hich the setting has been made The following changes are made when you enable the restricted user interface The toolbar is always hidden All functions on the Power menu are disabled All functions on the Snapshot menu and snapshot functions on the toolbar are disabled There is no access to the Virtual Machine Control Panel from the VMware Workstation window The user cannot change virtual networking settings The user starts the virtual machine by double clicking the configuration file vmx file or a desktop shortcut to that file The virtual machine powers on automatically At the end of the working session the user shuts down by closing the virtual machine File gt Close It is also possible to launch VMware Workstation then open a restricted interface virtual machine from the virtual machine list or the File menu The changes needed to enable the restricted user interface must be made by a user with sufficient privileges to edit the virtual machine s configuration file and to set file permissions as described below Take the following steps to enable the restricted user interface 1 Power off the virtual machine and close the VMware Workstation window then open the virtual machine s configuration file vmx file in Notepad or another text editor Add the following line anywhere in the file Cuil restricted true 2 You may wish to set file permissions on the configuration file to give normal users of the
208. hines Now you have two host only network adapters on the host computer Each is connected to its own virtual switch VMnet1 and VMnet2 You are ready to create and configure your virtual machines and connect them to the appropriate virtual switches Virtual Machine 1 Connected to the Default Host Only Interface 1 Create the virtual machine using the New Virtual Machine Wizard or use an existing virtual machine 2 Launch VMware Workstation and open the virtual machine 3 Edit the configuration using the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings Windows host Select Network Adapter and select Host only VMnet1 from the drop down list on the right If no network adapter is shown in the list of devices click Add then use the Add Hardware Wizard to add an adapter Linux host Click the sign to expand the Ethernet Adapters list and select the first adapter From the Connection Type drop down list on the right select Host only If the list of devices indicates the adapter is not installed click Install Virtual Machine 2 Connected to the Newly Created Host Only Interface 1 Create the virtual machine using the New Virtual Machine Wizard or use an existing virtual machine 216 rare gimn CHAPTER 9 Networking 2 Launch VMware Workstation and open the virtual machine 3 Edit the configuration using the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings Windows host Select
209. hl ShiftAlt O Custom Ctrl Down Up Shift Down Up Alt Down Up Hot key changes will take effect the next time this virtual machine is started Cancel Help Hot keys The Hot Key tab lets you change the key combination that determines whether certain combinations of keys are passed to the guest operating system or intercepted by VMware Workstation For example you may want to change hot key combinations from Ctrl Alt lt key gt to Ctrl Shift Alt lt key gt to prevent Ctrl Alt Delete from being intercepted by VMware Workstation instead of being sent to the guest operating system Note Because Ctrl Alt is the key combination used to tell VMware Workstation to release ungrab mouse and keyboard input combinations that include Ctrl Alt are not passed to the guest operating system If you need to use such a combination for example use Ctrl Alt lt Fkey gt to switch between Linux workspaces in a virtual machine press Ctrl Alt Space release Space without releasing Ctrl and Alt then press the third key of the key combination you want to send to the guest Using this dialog box you can also construct your own custom hot key combination Preferences Input Hot keys Workspace Default location for virtual machines C Documents and Settings JSpragenssMy D Opened virtual machines Remember opened virtual machines between sessions Cancel Help Workspace The Workspace tab lets you change the dire
210. ical computer giving each an IP address on the appropriate VMnet subnet On Windows hosts you can open a command prompt andrun ipconfig allto see what IP addresses each host only network is using On Linux hosts you can open a terminal and run ifconfig to see what IP addresses each host only network is using www vmMware comM CHAPTER 9 Networking Routing between Two Host Only Networks If you are setting up a complex test network using virtual machines you may want to have two independent host only networks with a router between them There are two basic approaches In one the router software runs on the host computer In the other the router software runs in its own virtual machine In both cases you need two host only interfaces The examples described here outline the simplest case with one virtual machine on each of the host only networks For more complex configurations you can add more virtual machines and host only networks as appropriate Setting Up the First Host Only Interface On Windows hosts the first host only network is set up automatically when you install VMware Workstation On Linux hosts the first host only network was set up when you ran the vmware config pl script after you installed VMware Workstation provided you agreed to install host only networking If you did not agree to use host only networking you need to run the script again to set up host only networking Setting Up the Second Host On
211. ical computer and running the operating system installed there in a second computer with a different motherboard video card and other peripherals then moving it back and forth between the two systems The general approach for resolving these issues is to set up profiles for each of the two operating environments the virtual machine and the physical computer You can then choose the appropriate profile when you start the operating system On some hardware however booting a previously installed operating system within a virtual machine may not work www vmMware com 146 CHAPTER 7 Using Disks Technical notes in this section document the issues most commonly encountered with various guest operating systems Read the notes that apply to your guest operating system before you begin to set up your virtual machine Before You Begin Before you begin be sure to read all the sections listed under the name of the operating system you intend to run as a guest in a virtual machine Windows Server 2003 Caution Running a Windows Server 2003 guest from a raw disk is not supported You should not test a Windows Server 2003 raw disk configuration in a production environment Configuring Dual or Multiple Boot Systems to Run with VMware Workstation on page 148 Running a Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Virtual Machine from an Existing Multiple Boot Installation on page 157 Do Not Use Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Serv
212. ice the virtual machine must be powered off 1 Ifitis not already running launch VMware Workstation Start gt Programs gt VMware gt VMware Workstation 2 Open the virtual machine in which you want to use the generic SCSI device Make sure the virtual machine is powered off 3 From the VMware Workstation window choose Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings The Virtual Machine Control Panel opens 4 Click Add to start the Add Hardware Wizard Click Next 5 Select Generic SCSI Device then click Next 6 Choose the name of the physical device you want to use Then choose the virtual device node where you want this device to appear in the virtual machine A check box under Device status allows you to specify whether the device should be connected each time the virtual machine is powered on 7 Click Finish to install the new device 8 Click OK to save the configuration and close the Virtual Machine Control Panel 280 o omn CHAPTER 11 Connecting Devices To remove this device launch the Virtual Machine Control Panel select the generic SCSI device then click Remove Generic SCSI on a Linux Host Operating System Using the SCSI Generic driver in Linux VMware Workstation allows your guest operating system to operate generic SCSI devices within a virtual machine The SCSI Generic driver sets up a mapping for each SCSI device in dev Each entry starts with sg for the SCSI Generic driver followed by a letter For example
213. ick Finish 7 The wizard configures the new raw disk If the partitions used on the raw disk are not formatted for your guest operating system use the guest operating system s tools to format them Note After you create a raw disk using one or more partitions on a physical disk you should never modify the partition tables by running disk or a similar utility in the guest operating system Note If you use fdisk ora similar utility on the host operating system to modify the partition table of the physical disk you must recreate the virtual machine s raw disk Adding DVD or CD Drives to a Virtual Machine You can add one or more DVD or CD drives to your virtual machine You can connect the virtual machine s drive to a physical drive on the host machine or to an ISO image file 1 42 www vmMware com You can configure the virtual DVD or CD drive as either IDE or SCSI no matter what kind of physical drive you connect it to In other words if your host computer has an IDE CD drive you can set up the virtual machine s drive as either SCSI or IDE and connect it to the host s drive The same is true if the host s physical drive is a SCSI drive Adding a DVD or CD Drive is Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings and click Add to start the Add Hardware Wizard Click DVD CD ROM Drive then click Next Select Use physical drive if you want to connect the virtual machine s drive to a physical d
214. iguring Samba for printing Sample smb conf for Host Only Networking The following sample Samba configuration file is for use with host only networking This configuration is for the 2 0 6 version of Samba installed by VMware Workstation The configuration files are placed in etc vmware vmnet1 smb by default This is the VMware TM Samba configuration file You should read the smb conf 5 manual page in order to understand the options listed here Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which are not shown in this example Any line that starts with a semicolon or a hash is a comment and is ignored In this example we will use a for commentary and a for parts of the config file that you may wish to enable Configuration file for Samba 2 0 6 vmware sn mbd operating on vmnet1 This file was generated by the VMware configuration program and modified for this document If you modify it it will be backed up the next time you run the configuration program H HHHH H 4 Global settings global This should be polled at install time from the private subnet created by vmware config pl socket address 192 168 183 1 interfaces vmnetl bind interfaces only yes workgroup WORKGROUP netbios name HOSTNAME server string VMware host only security user encrypt passwords yes Note Printers not loaded in this example Resource definitions commented below load printers yes
215. ion 2 you may see a dialog box that warns The driver you are installing is not specifically designed for the hardware you have Do you wish to continue Click Yes After the driver is installed click Finish 10 Click Yes to restart Windows Me and start using the new video driver 11 The VMware Tools background application starts automatically when you reboot your virtual machine Windows 98 1 After installing VMware Tools click Finish The Display Settings dialog box appears 2 Click the Advanced button The Standard Display Adapter VGA Properties dialog box appears If you are upgrading from a previous version of the VMware drivers this dialog box is titled VMware SVGA Properties 3 Click the Adapter tab 4 Click the Change button This starts the Update Device Driver Wizard Click Next 5 The wizard presents two options Choose the option to Display a list of all drivers in a specific location Click Next 6 Select Have Disk The Install From Disk dialog box appears 7 Enter the following path D video win9x D is the drive letter for the first virtual CD ROM drive in your virtual machine Click OK 8 Select VMware SVGA display adapter and click OK 9 Answer Yes to the on screen question then click Next to install the driver After the driver is installed click Finish 10 Click Close in the SVGA Properties dialog box then click Close in the Display Settings dialog box 11 Click Yes to restart
216. ird number in the IP address for example x in 192 168 x 0 or 172 16 x 0 In general you should not change the subnet mask Certain virtual network services may not work as well with a customized subnet mask When you modify the network address or subnet mask VMware Workstation automatically updates the IP address settings for other components such as DHCP NAT and host virtual adapter on that virtual network to reflect the new settings The specific settings that are automatically updated include DHCP lease range DHCP server address NAT gateway address and host virtual adapter IP address However if you have changed any of these settings from its default value even if you have later changed the setting back to the default VMware Workstation does not update that setting automatically It presumes that custom settings are not to be modified DHCP Settings VMnet host Subnet Netmask Start IP address 192 168 224 128 End IP address 192 168 224 254 Broadcast address Lease duration for DHCP clients 0 Default lease time 1 Max lease time 5 0 0 In the DHCP settings dialog box you can change the range of IP addresses provided by the DHCP server on a particular virtual network You can also set the duration of leases provided to clients on the virtual network When you have made all the changes you want to make on all panels of the
217. irtual machine direct access to a local hard disk 3 Select Use a physical disk then click Next Add Hardware Wizard Select a Physical Disk ST Which local hard disk do you want this virtual machine to use Sy Device PhysicalDrive0 Usage Use entire disk Use individual partitions 4 Choose the physical hard disk to use from the drop down list Select whether you want to use the entire disk or use only individual partitions on the disk Click Next www vmware com 140 CHAPTER 7 Using Disks Add Hardware Wizard Select Partitions Which partitions would you like to use for this virtual disk Sy Partitions Device PhysicalDriveD Partition File System Capacity C Partition 0 HPFS NTFS 3 4GB C Partition 1 HPFS NTFS 3 4GB Partition 2 HPFS NTFS 21 8GB 5 lf you selected Use individual partitions in the previous step select which partitions you want to use in the virtual machine If you selected Use entire disk this step does not appear Only the partitions you select in this step are visible to the virtual machine All other partitions are hidden from it Click Next Add Hardware Wizard Specify Disk File Where would you like to store information about this disk Disk file This disk file will store partition access configuration for the selected physical disk as specified for this virtual machine 6 Accept the default filename and location for the
218. irtual machines you want to run 93 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 94 fx VMware Workstation X File Edit Power Snapshot View Window Help a ii D A Snapshot FRjRevert foe Windows Ep Windows XP Profession Gj Windows 2000 Professio a Linux i Document WordPad File Edit View Insert Format Help Oe SRA XBR Bw 36 v Westem For Help press F1 start E Document WordPad Ue To release cursor press Ctrl Alt VMware Workstation main window on a Linux host Instead of using physical buttons to turn this computer on and off you use buttons on the toolbar at the top of the VMware Workstation window Windows 2000 Professional VMware Workstation gt File Edit Power Snapshot View Windows Help a ii D A F Snapshot Eh Revert m Ll el Toolbar when virtual machine is powered off as seen on a Windows host fv VMware Workstation File Edit Power Snapshot View Window Help m 1 D A H Snapshot fARevert Iole fe Toolbar when virtual machine is powered off as seen on a Linux host Windows XP Professional Ctrl Alt F1 VMware Workstation gt File Edit Power Snapshot view Windows Help E ii gt G F Snapshot E Revert mja i Toolbar when virtual machine is powered on as seen on a Windows host fv VMware Workstation File Edi
219. ituations you may find it useful to restrict a user s ability to reconfigure virtual machines and to simplify the user interface for inexperienced users In a classroom for example you may want to ensure that virtual machine configurations remain consistent from one class session to the next The administrative lockout and restricted user interface features available on Windows hosts meet these needs Administrative lockout is a global setting for VMware Workstation itself and affects all virtual machines Restricted user interface affects only the specific virtual machines for which the setting has been made These two features are available on Windows hosts only 302 Fico CHAPTER 13 Special Purpose Configuration Options Locking Out Interface Features Administrative lockout is a global setting that affects all virtual machines for all users on a host computer It allows a user to impose any combination of the following restrictions Only a user who knows the password can create new virtual machines Only a user who knows the password can edit virtual machine configurations Only a user who knows the password can edit network settings Note If no user has yet set administrative lockout preferences any user may set them and set a password for access to the administrative lockout features If any user has already set administrative lockout preferences you must know the password in order to change the settings Take the following ste
220. kstation 4 is supported only on host processors and host operating systems running in 32 bit mode processors and operating systems running in 64 bit mode are not supported PC Hardware Standard PC 500MHz or faster compatible x86 processor recommended 400MHz minimum Compatible processors include Intel Celeron Pentium Il Pentium Ill Pentium 4 Xeon including Prestonia e AMD Athlon Athlon MP Athlon XP Duron Opteron For additional information including notes on processors that are not compatible see the VMware knowledge base at www vmware com support kb enduser std_adp php p_fagid 967 Multiprocessor systems supported Memory Enough memory to run the host operating system plus memory required for each guest operating system and for applications on the host and guest see your guest operating system and application documentation for their memory requirements 256MB recommended 128MB minimum Display e 16 bit display adapter recommended greater than 8 bit display adapter required Linux hosts must have an X server that meets the X11R6 specification such as XFree86 and a video adapter supported by that server to run guest operating systems in full screen mode www vmware comM 16 CHAPTER 1 Introduction and System Requirements Disk Drives 100MB for Windows hosts 20MB for Linux hosts free space required for basic installation At least 1GB free disk soace recommended for each gues
221. l Machine The View menu gives you two ways to adjust the size of the VMware Workstation window so it exactly fits the virtual machine s display Autofit is toggled on or off each time you click it When Autofit is on the window adjusts automatically to fit the virtual machine s display When it is off you can adjust the window to a size of your choice If you make the window smaller than the virtual machine s display scroll bars appear so you can move to the part of the virtual machine s display that you want to see If Autofit is off you can choose View gt Fit to adjust the VMware Workstation window so it fits the virtual machine s display Fitting a Windows Guest Operating System s Display to the VMware Workstation Window If your Windows guest operating system is set to a display resolution larger or smaller than the size of the virtual machine window you can make it fit exactly by choosing View gt Fit Guest to Window When you choose Fit Guest to Window VMware Workstation adjusts the display settings of your Windows guest operating system as needed If you subsequently run the virtual machine in normal mode you may want to change the display settings back to their previous values Note When you use the Fit Guest to Window option and the window is small your guest operating system s screen resolution may be set to something smaller than VGA 640 x 480 Some installers and other programs do not run at resolutions smalle
222. l SCSI drive Use the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings to add a new virtual disk to your virtual machine The virtual machine should be powered off before you begin If it is not shut down the guest operating system normally then click Power Off on the VMware Workstation toolbar Note If you have a Windows NT 4 0 guest with a SCSI virtual disk you cannot add both an additional SCSI disk and an IDE disk to the configuration 1 Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings and click Add The Add Hardware Wizard guides you through the steps to create your virtual disk Add Hardware Wizard Hardware Type What type of hardward do you want to install Hardware types Explanation Hard Disk Add a hard disk 5 DVD CDROM Drive 8 Floppy Drive E Ethemet Adapter c Serial Port 2 Click Hard Disk then click Next 3 Select Create a New Virtual Disk then click Next 4 Set the capacity for the new virtual disk If you wish select Allocate all disk space now 138 nn on CHAPTER 7 Using Disks Allocating all the space at the time you create the virtual disk gives somewhat better performance but it requires as much disk space as the size you specify for the virtual disk If you do not select this option the virtual disk s files start small and grow as needed but they can never grow larger than the size you set here You can set a size between 2GB a
223. l machine 109 DVD or CD drive 142 floppy drive 144 generic SCSI device 280 282 host virtual adapter 200 parallel port 250 raw disk 140 serial port 254 shared folder 104 software to virtual machine 103 virtual disk 138 virtual Ethernet adapter 195 Address assigning IP 205 assigning MAC manually 208 IP in virtual machine 70 IP on virtual network 203 MAC 207 network address translation 220 using DHCP to assign on a virtual network 203 Administrative lockout 303 Application settings 112 Assign IP address 203 MAC address 207 Autofit 101 Automatic bridging 196 B Basic disks on Windows host 161 BIOS file in virtual machine 65 provided in virtual machine 19 Boot loader LILO 149 152 163 Boot sequence in VMware BIOS 150 153 Bridge 186 Bridged networking configuring options 196 defined 310 Browser configuring on Linux host 37 BSD supported guest operating systems 23 C Capture screen shot of virtual machine 110 CD adding drive to virtual machine 142 CD ROM image file 19 Change See Configure Color screen colors in a virtual machine 241 Commands keyboard shortcuts 115 on the command line 114 315 316 Compress See Shrink Configuration virtual machine 312 Configure administrative lockout 303 after Linux kernel upgrade 36 application settings 112 automatic bridging 196 bridged networking 196 devices in virtual machine 109 DHCP on Linux host 204 DHCP on Windows host 204 DHCP settings 198 disp
224. l machine components The Virtual Machine Control Panel on Linux hosts now matches the Virtual Machine Control Panel on Windows hosts To change settings for a device click its name in the list on the left then make changes in the right hand panel Click Add and follow the directions in the Add Hardware Wizard to add a new device To remove a device click its name in the list on the left then click Remove When you have finished making changes click OK to save the changes and close the Virtual Machine Control Panel la You do not have VMware Tools installed An alert appears in the status bar at the bottom left corner of the VMware Workstation window when your virtual machine is not running the version of VMware Tools that matches your version of VMware Workstation To launch the VMware Tools installer choose File gt Install VMware Tools Note Your guest operating system must be completely installed and running when you install VMware Tools For details see Installing VMware Tools on page 77 Starting a Virtual Machine on a Windows Host 1 Start VMware Workstation by double clicking the shortcut on your desktop or launch the program from the Start menu Start gt Programs gt VMware gt VMware Workstation VMware Workstation 96 WWWwW VmMware com CHAPTER 5 Running VMware Workstation The VMware Workstation window opens Windows XP Professional VMware Workstation i File Edit Power Snapshot View Windows
225. l machine for enhanced performance See Installing VMware Tools on page 77 6 Start using your virtual machine Before you begin be sure you have A computer and host operating system that meet the system requirements for running VMware Workstation See Host System Requirements on page 16 The VMware Workstation installation software If you bought the packaged distribution of VMware Workstation the installation software is on the CD in your package If you bought the electronic distribution the installation software is in the file you downloaded Your VMware Workstation serial number The serial number is included in the VMware Workstation package or in the email message confirming your electronic distribution order The installation CD or disks for your guest operating system Before Installing on a Linux Host Before you install and run VMware Workstation check the following notes and make any necessary adjustments to the configuration of your host operating system The real time clock function must be compiled into your Linux kernel VMware Workstation for Linux requires that the parallel port PC style hardware option CONFIG_PARPORT_PC be built and loaded as a kernel module that is it must be set to m when the kernel is compiled www vmMware com CHAPTER 2 Installing VMware Workstation Installing the VMware Workstation Software Note The steps below describe an installation from a CD ROM disc If you downloaded t
226. l machine uses the virtual serial port in polled mode not interrupt mode To prepare the host make sure you have downloaded the correct version of Debugging Tools for Windows You need version 4 0 18 0 dated December 21 2001 as it Supports debugging over a pipe Note Pipe support is not documented in the WinDbg and KD in product help or on Microsoft s Web site When you are ready to begin complete the following steps 1 Power on the virtual machine 2 Check to make sure the serial port is connected Choose choose Edit gt Removable Devices On that menu serial lt n gt should be reported as pipe lt namedpipe gt on Windows hosts or tmp lt socket gt on Linux hosts If the serial port is not connected choose the virtual serial port then Connect 3 On the host open a Command Prompt window and do one of the following If you are using WinDbg type the following windbg k com port pipe lt namedpipe gt pipe If you are using KD type the following kd k com port pipe lt namedpipe gt pipe Then press Enter to start debugging Debugging an Application in a Virtual Machine from another Virtual Machine In this situation you have kernel code to debug in a virtual machine called the target virtual machine and are running Debugging Tools for Windows WinDbg or Kernel Debugger KD in another virtual machine called the debugger virtual machine on the same host This is useful if you are running VMware W
227. l on your computer and before you install VMware Workstation 4 to ensure the best possible upgrade experience Resume and Shut Down Suspended Virtual Machines If you plan to use virtual machines created under VMware Workstation 2 3 or a prerelease version of VMware Workstation 4 be sure they have been shut down completely before you remove the release you used to create them If the virtual machine is suspended resume it in the earlier release shut down the guest operating system then power off the virtual machine Note If you attempt to resume a virtual machine that was suspended under a different VMware product or a different version of VMware Workstation a dialog box gives you the choice of discarding or keeping the file that stores the suspended state To recover the suspended state you must click Keep then resume the virtual machine under the correct VMware product If you click Discard you can power on normally but the suspended state is lost Make Sure All Disks Are in the Same Mode If you have an existing virtual machine with one or more virtual disks and all the disks use persistent or undoable mode upgrading is straightforward If you have an existing virtual machine with one or more virtual disks and all the disks use nonpersistent mode you need to take a few special steps when you upgrade VMware Tools For details see www vmware com into7id 44 If you plan to use an existing virtual machine that has disks in undoa
228. lay resolution on a Linux host 243 generic SCSI device 279 280 282 host virtual network mapping 198 hot keys 111 memory size 292 NAT 222 NAT on Linux host 228 parallel port 250 parallel port on a Linux host 251 preferences for virtual machine 110 process priorities on Windows host 113 reserved memory size 112 restricted user interface 305 Samba during Workstation installa tion 36 screen colors 241 second bridged network on a Linux host 210 serial port 254 shared folder 104 sound 245 USB controller 274 virtual Ethernet adapter 195 virtual network 184 188 192 195 virtual network subnet settings 198 VMware Tools 86 Web browser on Linux host 37 X server 243 Connect removable devices 110 USB devices 274 www vmware com Control panel virtual machine 109 312 Controls hiding 102 Copy 104 Core files 24 CPU host requirement 16 provided in virtual machine 19 Create virtual machine 63 Ctrl Alt 111 Cut 104 D DDNS 210 Defragment virtual disks 136 Delete virtual machine from Favorites list 98 Devices adding configuring and removing 109 connecting and disconnecting 110 disconnecting from USB controller 277 provided in virtual machine 19 USB 274 DHCP assigning IP addresses on a virtual network 203 changing settings 198 configuring on a Linux host 204 configuring on a Windows host 204 DHCP server 187 on a virtual network with NAT 221 server on virtual network 190 191 troubleshooting on a Linu
229. licable Windows 2000 Server disc 2 Double click the adminpak msi file Follow the instructions that appear in the Windows 2000 Administration Tools Setup wizard 3 After Windows 2000 Administration Tools are installed you can access most of the server administrative tools by choosing Start gt Programs gt Administrative Tools Linux Hosts If you find packets leaking out of a host only network on a Linux host computer check to see if forwarding has mistakenly been enabled on the host machine If it is enabled disable it For many Linux systems disable forwarding by writing a O zero to the special file proc sys net ipv4 ip_ forward As root enter this command echo 0 gt proc sys net ipv4 ip_ forward Other Linux systems have a system configuration option that you can set The method depends on your Linux distribution You may use a control panel specify a setting at the time you compile your kernel or possibly enter a specification when you boot your system Consult your operating system documentation for details on the method to use with your particular distribution 206 o omn CHAPTER 9 Networking Using Filtering If the host computer has multiple network adapters it may be intentionally configured to do IP forwarding If that is the case you do not want to disable forwarding In that case to avoid packet leakage you must enable a packet filtering facility and specify that packets from the host only network should not
230. line that starts with a semicolon or a hash is a comment and is ignored In this example we will use a for commentary and a for parts of the config file that you H HOH OH OH H H CHAPTER 9 Networking 233 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual may wish to enable NOTE Whenever you modify this file you should run the command testparm to check that you have not many any basic syntactic errors HEHEHE H Global Settings global interfaces eth0 workgroup WORKGROUP netbios name HOSTNAME server string Samba Host Box Note Printers not loaded in this example Resource definitions commented below printcap name lpstat load printers yes printing cups socket options TCP_NODELAY SO_ RCVBUF 8192 SO _SNDBUF 8192 log file var log samba log m max log size 50 security user encrypt passwords yes smb passwd file etc smbpasswd dns proxy no preserve case yes short preserve case yes default case lower case sensitive no Shared Resources homes comment Home Directories browseable yes writable yes printers comment All Printers path var spool samba browseable yes guest ok yes writable no printable yes create mode 0700 print command lpr cups P p o raw s r using client side printer drivers print command lpr cups P p s using cups own drivers use generic PostScript on client
231. ll screen mode in the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings Possible Issues In a few cases the Find best resolution option may not give the best results X Server Configuration When VMware Workstation switches to full screen mode it can choose only those resolutions that are already configured in the XF86Con fig file on your host A sample configuration for a given color depth could look like this Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection In this case VMware Workstation is able to match a virtual machine running at 1280x1024 1024x768 or 800x600 but not at 640x480 or 1152x900 If a virtual machine runs at a resolution that does not match a mode listed in the XFree86 configuration then for full screen mode VMware Workstation chooses the closest larger mode and uses black borders or else simply does not offer full screen mode at all 243 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual It is possible to have bad modes configured in the XF86Conf ig file on your host If your XFree86 configuration was automatically generated or if you never tested all modes with your current monitor and video card it is possible that some enabled modes do not work with your monitor However the mode switching code in VMware Workstation has no way of knowing this and a virtual machine that tries to use a resolution with a bad mode line can cause your display to fail to displa
232. ly Interface Windows Host Follow these steps to set up the second host only interface on a Windows host 1 Go to Edit gt Virtual Network Settings gt Host Virtual Adapters 2 Click Add new adapter 3 Choose the virtual network on which you want to use the adapter and click OK 4 Click Apply 5 Click OK to close the Virtual Network Editor Setting Up the Second Host Only Interface Linux Host 1 As root su run the VMware Workstation configuration script usr bin vmware config pl 2 Use the wizard to modify your configuration After asking about a NAT network the script asks Do you want to be able to use host only networking in your virtual machines Answer Yes The wizard reports on host only networks that you have already set up on the host or if none is present configures the first host only network 215 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 3 The wizard asks Do you wish to configure another host only network Answer Yes Repeat this step until you have as many host only networks as you want Then answer No 4 Complete the wizard When it is finished it restarts all services used by VMware Workstation 5 Run ifconfig You should see at least four network interfaces eth0O lo vmnet1 and vmnet2 If the VMnet interfaces do not show up immediately wait for a minute then run the command again These four interfaces should have different IP address on separate subnets Setting Up the Virtual Mac
233. m Linux Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 9 Select Virtual Machine from the list of profiles when prompted 10 Windows 98 auto detects the virtual machine s devices and installs the device drivers 11 When Windows detects the video card driver select Search for the best driver 12 When prompted to reboot click No The AMD PCNET driver is installed followed by the IDE controller drivers 13 When prompted to reboot click Yes 14 Select the Virtual Machine hardware profile 15 After Windows 98 has completed booting start the Add New Hardware wizard from the Control Panel 16 Click Next then Next again 17 Select No the device isn t in the list 18 Click Yes then click Next 19 After all devices have been detected click the Details button to list the detected non Plug and Play devices 20 Click Finish then reboot the virtual machine when prompted 21 Select the VMware Workstation configuration profile Notice that an unknown monitor is detected and installed 22 Install VMware Tools as outlined in Installing a Guest Operating System and VMware Tools on page 74 23 Open the Device Manager It should show that you have e Standard PCI Graphics Adapter e VMware SVGA Display Adapter 24 Shut down the Windows 98 virtual machine and your host operating system 25 Boot natively into Windows 98 then start the Device Manager 160 nn CHAPTER 7 Using Disks 26 Select the VMwar
234. m the master boot record MBR Choose the target operating system from the list of options offered by the boot manager 12 Remember that your virtual machine hardware environment which the guest operating system is about to run in for the first time probably differs significantly from the physical hardware of your machine For Windows guest operating systems Plug and Play reconfigures Windows Set up your virtual hardware profile with the devices found and configured by Plug and Play See Setting Up Hardware Profiles in Virtual Machines on page 154 for more information 13 Install VMware Tools in your guest operating system Warning If you take a snapshot while using your raw disk you must either revert to the snapshot or remove the snapshot before you reboot your guest operating system CHAPTER 7 Using Disks 153 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual natively This is necessary because any changes to sectors on the physical disk that have been modified on the disk invalidate the snapshot for the disk Setting Up Hardware Profiles in Virtual Machines Certain operating systems use hardware profiles to load the appropriate drivers for a given set of hardware devices If you have a dual boot system and want to use a virtual machine to boot a previously installed operating system from an existing partition you must set up physical and virtual hardware profiles Only users who are familiar with VMware Workstation virtu
235. mall amount of space for virtual machine overhead If you chose to allocate space for the virtual disk in advance the file sizes are fixed and most of the files are 2GB As mentioned above the first file is small The last file in the series may also be smaller than 2GB If you did not allocate the space in advance the vmdk files grow as data is added to a maximum of 2GB each except for the first file in the set which remains small The Virtual Machine Control Panel shows the name of the first file in the set the one that contains pointers to the other files in the set The other files used for that disk are automatically given names based on the first file s name For example a Windows XP Professional virtual machine using the default configuration with files that grow as needed store the disk in files named Windows XP Professional vmdk Windows XP Professional s001 vmdk Windows XP Professional s002 vmdk and soon If the disk space is allocated in advance the names are similar except that they include an f instead of an s for example Windows XP Professional 001 vmdk If your virtual machine uses files created under earlier VMware products witha dsk extension the filenames can be updated automatically on a Windows host For details see Updating Filenames for Virtual Disks Created with Earlier VMware Products on page 135 If you are using a raw disk the vmdk file stores information about the physical disk
236. mance Tuning If you have a 1GB kernel with CONFIG_BIGMEM enabled and have more than 1983MB of memory you can do one of the following Recompile the kernel as a 2GB kernel by enabling the CONFIG_2GB option and either pass the boot time switch mem 19 83M at the LILO prompt or add it to lilo conf To use the switch At the LILO prompt type Linux 2 2 16xxx mem 1983M Or edit Lilo cone In the kernel section add this line append mem 1983M Pass the boot time switch mem 95 9M at the LILO prompt or add it to lilo conf to disable CONFIG_BIGMEM To use the switch At the LILO prompt type Linux 2 2 16xxx mem 959M Or edit lilo conf In the kernel section add this line append mem 959M If you are using a 2GB kernel with CONFIG_BIGMEM enabled and have 1984MB or more memory VMware Workstation does not run You can either pass the boot time switch mem 1983M at the LILO prompt or add it to Lilo conf to disable CONFIG_BIGMEM and thus allow you to run VMware Workstation To use the switch At the LILO prompt type Linux 2 2 16xxx mem 1983M Or edit Lilo cone In the kernel section add this line append mem 1983M 295 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Improving Performance for Guest Operating Systems The tips in this section help you make adjustments to improve performance for particular guest operating systems running inside a virtual machine Windows 95 and Windows 98 Guest Operating System Performance Tips This s
237. maximum amount of memory that VMware Workstation is allowed to reserve But this memory is not allocated in advance Even if multiple virtual machines are running at the same time VMware Workstation may be using only a fraction of the reserved memory Any unused reserved memory is available to be used by other applications If all the reserved memory is in use by one or more virtual machines the host operating system cannot use this memory itself or allow other applications to use it The memory used by VMware Workstation includes the memory made available to the guest operating systems plus a small amount of overhead memory associated with running a virtual machine The amount of memory actually used for a particular virtual machine varies dynamically as a virtual machine runs If multiple virtual machines run simultaneously they work together to manage the reserved memory The recommended amount of memory to reserve for all running virtual machines is calculated on the basis of the host computer s physical memory and is displayed in the reserved memory settings control Edit gt Application Settings gt Memory If you determine you want VMware Workstation to reserve more or less physical memory you can use this control to change the amount Reserving too much physical memory can cause the host to thrash or even hang if other applications are run on the host Reserving too little physical memory can cause virtual machines to perform ver
238. may cause significant performance degradation if there is a mismatch between the selection and the operating system actually running in the virtual machine Selecting the wrong guest operating system should not cause a virtual machine to run incorrectly but it may degrade the virtual machine s performance Memory Settings Make sure to choose a reasonable amount of memory for your virtual machine Many modern operating systems have a growing need for memory so assigning a generous amount is a good thing The same holds true for the host operating system especially a Windows host The New Virtual Machine Wizard automatically selects a reasonable starting point for the virtual machine s memory but you may be able to improve performance by adjusting the settings in the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings gt Memory If you plan to run one virtual machine at a time most of the time a good starting point is to give the virtual machine half the memory available on the host 286 o oen CHAPTER 12 Performance Tuning Adjusting the reserved memory settings may also help Go to Edit gt Application Settings gt Memory For additional information see Memory Usage Notes on page 292 Debugging Mode VMware Workstation can run in two modes normal mode and a mode that provides extra debugging information The debugging mode is slower than normal mode For normal use check to be sure you are not runni
239. me you want to use it click Add make any changes you wish to the display name and location in the Favorites list then click OK Note By default VMware Workstation 4 stores virtual machines in lt homedir gt vmware lt guestOSname gt where lt homedir gt is the home directory of the user who is logged on when the virtual machine is created 3 Click the Power On button to start the virtual machine 4 f VMware Tools is not running in the virtual machine click anywhere inside the virtual machine window to give the virtual machine control of your mouse and keyboard 5 Ifyou need to log on type in your name and password just as you would on a physical computer Checking the Status of VMware Tools For best performance it is important to have VMware Tools installed and running in your virtual machine 98 www vmMware com CHAPTER 5 Running VMware Workstation After you install VMware Tools in a Windows virtual machine the VMware Tools services start automatically when you start the guest operating system 4 11 43 AM When VMware Tools is running in a Windows virtual machine the VMware Tools icon appears in the system tray unless you disable the icon If the VMware Tools icon is not displayed in the system tray you can use the VMware Tools control panel in the guest operating system Start gt Settings gt Control Panel to change settings for VMware Tools You can also reactivate the system tray icon On the Optio
240. mediately and permanently written to the disk Nonpersistent changes to the disk are discarded when you power off or revert to the snapshot When you have set the filename and location you want to use and have made any selections you want to make on the advanced settings screen click Finish 14 Click Finish The wizard sets up the files needed for your virtual machine 73 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Installing a Guest Operating System and VMware Tools A new virtual machine is like a physical computer with a blank hard disk Before you can use it you need to partition and format the virtual disk and install an operating system The operating system s installation program may handle the partitioning and formatting steps for you Installing a guest operating system inside your VMware Workstation virtual machine is essentially the same as installing it on a physical computer The basic steps for a typical operating system are 1 Start VMware Workstation 2 Insert the installation CD ROM or floppy disk for your guest operating system Note In some host configurations the virtual machine is not able to boot from the installation CD ROM You can work around that problem by creating an ISO image file from the installation CD ROM Use the Virtual Machine Control Panel to connect the virtual machine s CD drive to the ISO image file then power on the virtual machine 3 Power on your virtual machine by clicking the Power O
241. mmon tasks Overview of the VMware Workstation Window on page 93 Starting a Virtual Machine on a Windows Host on page 96 Starting a Virtual Machine on a Linux Host on page 98 Checking the Status of VMware Tools on page 98 Using Full Screen Mode on page 99 Using Quick Switch Mode on page 100 Taking Advantage of Multiple Monitors on page 100 Fitting the VMware Workstation Window to the Virtual Machine on page 101 Fitting a Windows Guest Operating System s Display to the VMware Workstation Window on page 101 Simplifying the Screen Display on page 102 Installing New Software in the Virtual Machine on page 103 Cutting Copying and Pasting Text on page 104 Using Shared Folders on page 104 Using Drag and Drop on page 107 Suspending and Resuming Virtual Machines on page 107 Taking and Reverting to a Snapshot on page 108 Shutting Down a Virtual Machine on page 108 Adding Configuring and Removing Devices in a Virtual Machine on page 109 Connecting and Disconnecting Removable Devices on page 110 Creating a Screen Shot of a Virtual Machine on page 110 Setting Preferences for VMware Workstation on page 110 Setting Application Settings for VMware Workstation on page 112 Command Reference on page 114 www vmMware com CHAPTER 5 Running VMware Workstation Keyboard Shortcuts on page 115 For purposes of illustration the examples in these sections use a Windows XP guest operating system Some commands used in the illustrations a
242. modules You can also look at the proc modules file for the same list To load the proper modules run this command insmod k lt modulename gt If none of the listed parallel port modules is running use this command insmod k parport_pc This command inserts the three modules needed for a parallel port If you continue to see problems it is possible that the 1p module is running If it is the virtual machine cannot use the parallel port correctly To remove the 1p module run this command as the root user rmmod lp You should also ensure that the line referring to the 1p module in the etc modules conf or etc conf modules file is removed or commented out by inserting a hash character at the beginning of the line The name of the configuration file depends on the Linux distribution you are using When you reboot the host after removing this line the configuration file no longer starts the 1p module To ensure that the proper modules for the parallel port are loaded at boot time add this line to the etc modules conf or etc conf modules file alias parport_lowlevel parport_jpc Linux kernels in the 2 4 x series also use a special arbitrator that allows access to the parallel port hardware If the parallel port is in use by the host the guest cannot use it If a virtual machine is using the parallel port the host and any users accessing the host 252 Fico CHAPTER 11 Connecting Devices are not given access to the device VMw
243. move files easily between a Windows host and a Windows virtual machine You can drag and drop individual files or entire directories Existing partition A partition on a physical disk in the host machine See also Raw disk Full screen mode A display mode in which the virtual machine s display fills the entire screen See also Quick switch mode Favorites list A list in the left panel of the main VMware Workstation screen that shows the names of virtual machines that a user has added to the list The Favorites list makes it easy to launch a virtual machine or to connect to the virtual machine s configuration file in order to make changes in the virtual machine settings Guest operating system An operating system that runs inside a virtual machine See also Host operating system Host only networking A type of network connection between a virtual machine and the host Under host only networking a virtual machine is connected to the host on a private network which normally is not visible outside the host Multiple virtual machines configured with host only networking on the same host are on the same network See also Bridged networking Custom networking and Network address translation Host machine The physical computer on which the VMware Workstation software is installed It hosts the VMware Workstation virtual machines 310 Fico CHAPTER 14 Glossary Host operating system An operating system that runs on
244. mple tmp uncompress the installer then unmount the CD ROM image Note You do not use an actual CD ROM to install VMware Tools nor do you need to download the CD ROM image or burn a physical CD ROM of this image file The VMware Workstation software contains an ISO image that looks like a CD ROM to your guest operating system This image contains all the files needed to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system 81 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 82 Note Some Linux distributions use different device names or organize the dev directory differently If your CD ROM drive is not dev cdrom modify the following commands to reflect the conventions used by your distribution mount dev cdrom mnt cd tmp tar zxf mnt vmware linux tools tar gz umount mnt 5 Run the VMware Tools installer cd vmware tools distrib vmware install pl 6 Log out of the root account exit 7 Start X and your graphical environment 8 In an X terminal launch the VMware Tools background application vmware toolbox amp Note You may run VMware Tools as root or as a normal user To shrink virtual disks you must run VMware Tools as root su Starting VMware Tools Automatically You may find it helpful to configure your guest operating system so VMware Tools starts when you start your X server The steps for doing so vary depending on your Linux distribution and your desktop environment Check your operating system document
245. mputer VMware Workstation automatically transfers control of the device to the virtual machine Under some circumstances if a USB storage device is in use on the host for example one or more files stored on the device are open on the host an error appears in the virtual machine when you try to connect to the device You must let the host complete its operation or close any application connected to the device on the host then connect to the device in the virtual machine again 276 Fico CHAPTER 11 Connecting Devices Device Control on a Linux Host On Linux hosts guest operating systems can use devices that are not already in use by the host that is devices that are not claimed by a host operating system driver If your device is in use by the host and you try to connect it to the guest using the Edit gt Removable Devices menu a dialog box appears informing you that there is a problem connecting to the device To disconnect the device from the host you must unload the device driver You can unload the driver manually as root su using the rmmod command Or if the driver was automatically loaded by hotplug you can disable it in the hotplug configuration files in the etc hotplug directory See your Linux distribution s documentation for details on editing these configuration files A related issue sometimes affects devices that rely on automatic connection as PDAs often do If you have successfully used autoconnection
246. n enter C Windows System and click Next 25 Select The updated driver Recommended AMD PCNET Family Ethernet Adapter PCI ISA Click Next 26 Windows finds the inf file for the adapter Click Next 27 Windows asks for the file dhcpsve d11 Enter the location C Windows System then click OK 28 Windows asks for the file inetmib1 d11 Enter the location C Windows then click OK 29 Windows asks for the file Locproxy exe Enter the location C Windows System then click OK 30 Windows asks for the file ndishlp sys Enter the location C Windows then click OK 31 Windows asks for the file wshtcp vxd Enter the location C Windows System then click OK 32 A dialog box indicates that Windows has finished installing the software Click Finish 33 To install the sound adapter follow the directions in Installing Sound Drivers in Windows 9x and Windows NT Guest Operating Systems on page 245 34 If you have serial ports configured in the virtual machine go to the Windows Device Manager and uninstall all the COM ports listed there 35 Restart the virtual machine 36 Windows detects the COM ports and installs them properly Windows 95 Guest The following steps provide examples of what you may see as your guest operating system recognizes the new virtual hardware The specific steps may vary depending on the configuration of the virtual machine 1 Power on the virtual machine and let it update the CMOS
247. n Linux hosts the first host only network is set up when you run the vmware config pl script after you install VMware Workstation provided you agree to install host only networking If you did not agree to use host only networking you need to run the script again to set up host only networking 211 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 212 To set up the second host only network follow the steps outlined below for your host Operating system Setting Up the Second Host Only Interface on a Windows Host Follow these steps to set up the second host only interface on a Windows host 1 Go to Edit gt Virtual Network Settings gt Host Virtual Adapters 2 Click Add new adapter 3 Choose the virtual network on which you want to use the adapter and click OK 4 Click Apply 5 Click OK to close the Virtual Network Editor Setting Up the Second Host Only Interface on a Linux Host 1 As root su run the VMware Workstation configuration script usr bin vmware config pl 2 Use the wizard to modify your configuration After asking about a NAT network the script asks Do you want to be able to use host only networking in your virtual machines Answer Yes The wizard reports on host only networks that you have already set up on the host or if none is present configures the first host only network 3 The wizard asks Do you wish to configure another host only network Answer Yes Repeat this step until you have as many host onl
248. n a Windows host first choose View gt Virtual Machine Tabs to turn off the tabs Then from the title bar icon shortcut menu choose Hide Controls Windows XP Professional Ctrl Alt F1 VMware Workstation Using the View menu and the title bar icon shortcut menu you can remove all visible controls from the VMware Workstation window Installing New Software in the Virtual Machine Installing new software in a VMware Workstation virtual machine is just like installing it on a physical computer For example to install software in a Windows virtual machine take the following steps 1 Be sure you have started the virtual machine and if necessary logged on On the Workstation menus check Edit gt Removable Devices to be sure the virtual machine has access to the CD ROM drive and if needed the floppy drive 2 Insert the installation CD ROM or floppy disk into the proper drive If you are installing from a CD ROM the installation program may start automatically 3 If the installation program does not start automatically click the Windows Start button go to Settings gt Control Panel then double click Add Remove Programs and click the Install button Follow the instructions on screen and in the user manual for your new software Note Some applications use a product activation feature that creates a key based on the virtual hardware in the virtual machine where it is installed Changes in the configuration of the virtual
249. n a virtual machine that is mapped to a physical disk drive Or partition on the host machine A virtual machine s disk can be stored as a file on the host file system see Virtual disk or on a local hard disk When a virtual machine is configured to use a raw disk VMware Workstation directly accesses the local disk or partition as a raw device not as a file on a file system It is possible to boot a previously installed operating system on an existing partition within a virtual machine environment The only limitation is that the existing partition must reside on a local IDE or SCSI drive See also Virtual disk Resume Return a virtual machine to operation from its suspended state When you resume a suspended virtual machine all applications are in the same state they were when the virtual machine was suspended See also Suspend Shared folder A shared folder is a folder on the host computer or ona network drive accessible from the host computer that can be used by both the host computer and one or more virtual machines It provides a simple way of sharing 311 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual files between host and guest or among virtual machines In a Windows virtual machine shared folders appear as folders on a designated drive letter In a Linux virtual machine shared folders appear under a specified mount point Snapshot A snapshot preserves the virtual machine just as it was when you took the snapshot
250. n access privilege information that controls a virtual machine s access to certain partitions on the disks This mechanism prevents users from accidentally running the host operating system again as a guest or running a guest operating system that the virtual machine is not configured to use The description file also prevents accidental writes to raw disk partitions from badly behaved operating systems or applications Use the New Virtual Machine Wizard to configure VMware Workstation to use existing raw disk partitions The wizard guides you though creating a new virtual machine including configuring the raw disk description files Rerun the wizard to create a separate configuration for each guest operating system installed on a raw partition Configuring a Windows Host Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Dynamic Disks If your host is running Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 and is using dynamic disks see Do Not Use Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Dynamic Disks as Raw Disks on page 161 166 nn on CHAPTER 7 Using Disks Configuring the Virtual Machine to Use a Raw Disk Use the following steps to run a guest operating system from a raw disk Note If you use a Windows host s IDE disk in a raw disk configuration it cannot be configured as the slave on the secondary IDE channel if the master on that channel is a CD ROM drive 1 Identify the raw partition on which you plan to install the guest
251. n button 4 Follow the instructions provided by the operating system vendor The next section provides notes on installing a Windows XP guest operating system The screen shots illustrate the process on a Windows host The steps are the same on a Linux host For information on installing other guest operating systems see the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide available from the VMware Web site or from the Help menu 74 WwWwWww ymware com CHAPTER 4 Creating a New Virtual Machine Installing Windows XP as a Guest Operating System You can install Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional in a virtual machine using the full installation CD Before installing the operating system be sure that you have already created a new virtual machine and configured it using the New Virtual Machine Wizard Note To use SCSI disks in a Windows XP virtual machine you need a special SCSI driver available from the download section of the VMware Web site at www vmware com download Follow the instructions on the Web site to use the driver with a fresh installation of Windows XP Installation Steps 1 Insert the Windows XP CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Power on the virtual machine to start installing Windows XP Windows XP Professional Ctrl Alt F1 VMware Workstation File Edit Power Snapshot view Windows Help i E ii DG ED Snapshot EA Revert mla Favorites X Windows XP Professional GB Windows xP Professional
252. n the host operating system only when you set the clock in the guest operating system to a time earlier than the time set in the host Show VMware Tools in the taskbar VMware Tools Properties Options Devices Scripts Shared Folders Shrink About Check a device to connect it to the virtual machine IV floppyO I idet 0 IV EthemetO MV sound Cancel j Help The Devices tab allows you to enable or disable removable devices You can also set these options from the Edit menu of the VMware Workstation application 86 WWW VmMware com CHAPTER 4 Creating a New Virtual Machine VMware Tools Properties Options Devices Scripts Shared Folders Shrink About Script Event Suspend Guest Operating System v M Use Script Run Now Cancel Apply Help The Scripts tab lets you enable disable and run scripts that are associated with the Suspend Resume Power On and Power Off buttons Windows hosts If the virtual machine is configured to use DHCP the script executed when suspending a virtual machine releases the IP address of the virtual machine The script executed when resuming a virtual machine renews the IP address of the virtual machine Linux hosts The script executed when suspending a virtual machine stops networking for the virtual machine The script executed when resuming a virtual machine starts networking for the virtual machine To run one of these scripts at some other time select the script you wa
253. nal Configuration profile then click Copy 5 Name the profile Virtual Machine then click OK You may also want to rename the Original Configuration profile to Physical Machine 6 Click OK to close the System Properties dialog box 7 Shut down Windows 95 and reboot the system 8 Boot into your host operating system Linux Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 9 Start the Windows 95 virtual machine 10 Select Virtual Machine from the list of profiles when prompted 158 rare gimn CHAPTER 7 Using Disks 11 If you are prompted to select the CPU Bridge accept the default then click OK 12 Restart Windows 95 when prompted 13 Again select Virtual Machine from the list of profiles when prompted 14 When the video card is detected you are prompted to select which driver you want to install for your new hardware Click the Select from a list of alternate drivers radio button then click OK 15 Select Display Adapters from the Select Hardware Type dialog box 16 Select Standard Display Adapter VGA from the device list then click OK 17 Restart Windows 95 when prompted 18 Install VMware Tools as outlined in Installing a Guest Operating System and VMware Tools on page 74 then restart the virtual machine 19 Start the Device Manager and expand the Display adapters tree 20 Highlight VMware SVGA Click Properties 21 Uncheck Physical Machine then click OK Click Close 22 Shut down Windo
254. nce to Rename Disk Files machine if it finds them It changes the old std file extension to vmss The neneme Virtua However it is best to resume and shut down all suspended virtual machines Disks dialog box before you upgrade from VMware Workstation 3 to VMware Workstation 4 appears only once If you click Cancel you Besides renaming files the converter updates the corresponding virtual machine configuration files so they identify the virtual disks using the new filenames will not have another opportunity to update If you store your virtual disk files or suspended state files on a Windows XP or A am ene Windows Server 2003 host or if you may do so in the future it is important configuration files i e to convert the filenames to avoid conflicts with the System Restore feature of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 i VMware Workstation Registration Information optional You can enter this nformatio User Name Test User Company Your Company Serial Number XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX A T o Enter gt Skip gt 10 If you wish enter your name company name and serial number then click Next The serial number is on the registration card in your package The user and 32 WWW VmMware com CHAPTER 2 Installing VMware Workstation company information you enter here is then made available in the About box Help gt About VMware Workstation If you skip this step you are prompted to enter
255. nd 256GB for a SCSI virtual disk or 128GB for an IDE virtual disk The default is 4GB You may also specify whether you want the virtual disk created as one large file or split into a set of 2GB files 5 Accept the default filename and location for the virtual disk file or change it if you want to use a different name or location To find a different folder click Browse In most cases the wizard creates a SCSI virtual disk by default If your guest operating system does not have appropriate support for the virtual SCSI adapter in the virtual machine the wizard creates an IDE virtual disk If you want your virtual disk to be an IDE device click Advanced and be sure the virtual device node is set to an available IDE node On the advanced settings screen you can also specify a disk mode This is useful in certain special purpose configurations in which you want to exclude disks from the snapshot For more information on the snapshot feature see Using the Snapshot on page 176 Normal disks are included in the snapshot In most cases this is the setting you want Independent disks are not included in the snapshot You have the following options for an independent disk Persistent changes are immediately and permanently written to the disk Nonpersistent changes to the disk are discarded when you power off or revert to the snapshot When you have set the filename and location you want to use and have made any selections you
256. nd either normal or low priority when they are not grabbed Global priority is taken as the default across all virtual machines Local priority overrides the global settings for just the specific virtual machine where you make the changes Pay particular attention to the grabbed HIGH ungrabbed NORMAL and grabbed NORMAL ungrabbed LOW settings 289 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual The grabbed HIGH ungrabbed NORMAL setting is useful if you have many background processes or applications and you do not care if they run with fairly low relative priority while VMware Workstation is in the foreground In return you get a very noticeable performance boost using a VMware Workstation virtual machine while another virtual machine is running or while some other processor intensive task a compile for example is running in the background The reverse is true of the grabbed NORMAL ungrabbed LOW setting If your host machine feels too sluggish when a virtual machine is running in the background you can direct the virtual machine to drop its priority when it does not have control of the mouse and keyboard As with the high setting this is a heavy handed change of priority so the virtual machine and any background applications run much more slowly VMware Workstation on a Linux Host Note The items in this section describe performance of VMware Workstation on a Linux host For tips on configuring VMware Workstation on a Windows h
257. necting Devices Under Device status the default setting is Connect at power on Clear the check box if you want to deselect this setting Click Finish In a Windows 95 or Windows 98 guest after you add the port run the guest operating system s Add New Hardware Wizard Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt Add New Hardware and let Windows detect the new device Configuring a Parallel Port on a Linux Host For the parallel port to work properly in a guest it must first be configured properly on the host Most issues involving parallel port functionality are a result of the host configuration Check these areas of concern the version of your Linux kernel your device access permissions and the required modules Parallel Ports and Linux 2 2 x Kernels The 2 2 x kernels that support parallel ports use the parport parport_pc and vmppuser modules Be sure that PC Style Hardware CONFIG_PARPORT_PC is loaded as a module as mentioned at the beginning of Using Parallel Ports on page 250 The vmppuser module is supplied by VMware Workstation to give virtual machines user level access to the parallel port To see if these modules are installed and running on your system run the 1smod command as the root user These three modules should be included in the listing of running modules You can also look at the proc modules file for the same list To load the proper modules run this command insmod k lt modulename gt If none of the li
258. nel You do this by recompiling your kernel with CONFIG_2GB enabled This allows Linux to support nearly 2GB of physical memory by dividing the address space into a 2GB user section and 2GB kernel section as opposed to the normal division of 3GB for user and 1GB for kernel The third approach uses the CONFIG_BIGMEM option in Linux With the CONFIG_BIGMEM option enabled the kernel does not directly address all of physical memory and it can then map 1GB or 2GB of physical memory into the address space at a time This allows the use of all of physical memory at the cost of changing the semantics the kernel uses to map virtual to physical addresses However VMware products expect physical memory to be mapped directly in the kernel s address space and thus do not work properly with the CONFIG_BIGMEM option enabled Workarounds If you are using a 1GB kernel with CONFIG_BIGMEM enabled and have 960MB to 1983MB of memory VMware Workstation does not run To work around this issue you can either Recompile the kernel as a 2GB kernel by enabling the CONFIG_2GB option This allows for 100 percent use of physical memory Pass the boot time switch mem 95 9M at the LILO prompt or add it to lilo conf to disable CONFIG_BIGMEM and thus allow you to run VMware Workstation To do this At the LILO prompt type Linux 2 2 16xxx mem 959M Or edit Lilo conef In the kernel section add this line append mem 959M 294 www vmMware com CHAPTER 12 Perfor
259. net used by the VMware Workstation virtual Ethernet adapter VMnet1 You can configure your existing Samba server to work with a host only network Note however that all the shares you set up in Samba and in the guest operating system normally appear on the bridged network as well If you need to be sure the shares set up in the guest operating system are seen only on the host only network you may find it easiest to install and use the Samba server provided with VMware Workstation If you do not need any shares to appear on your bridged network you can use your existing Samba server and set up the configuration file so it works only on the host only network Samba configurations can be quite complex This section provides several sample configuration files If you need to go beyond the issues covered here see the man page for the smb conf file To view this man page type one of the following commands in a terminal window man smb conf Or man 5 smb conf 231 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Pay particular attention to the section on encrypted passwords If you have enabled clear text passwords in the guest operating system be sure that smb conf is set up to use clear text passwords Similarly if you are using encrypted passwords you must have the same setting in the guest operating system and in smb conf Note Using Samba printer sharing with virtual machines is not supported Consult the man pages for guidance on conf
260. ng in debugging mode Go to Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings gt Options and select Advanced In the Advanced Options section be sure there is no check in the Run with debugging information check box CD ROM Drive Polling Some operating systems including Windows NT and Windows 98 poll the CD ROM drive every second or so to see whether a disc is present This allows them to run autorun programs This polling can cause VMware Workstation to connect to the host CD ROM drive which can make it spin up while the virtual machine appears to pause If you have a CD ROM drive that takes especially long to spin up there are two ways you can eliminate these pauses You can disable the polling inside your guest operating system The method varies by operating system For recent Microsoft Windows operating systems the easiest way is to use TweakUl from the PowerToys utilities For information on finding TweakUI and installing it in your guest operating system go to www microsoft com and search for TweakUl Specific instructions depend on your operating system Another approach is to configure your virtual CD ROM drive to start disconnected The drive appears in the virtual machine but it always appears to contain no disc and VMware Workstation does not connect to your host CD ROM drive To make this change go to Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings Click the DVD CD ROM item in the Device list Then clear the Connect at Power On ch
261. ning and improved virtual disk formats Note Ifyou are upgrading a virtual machine that runs from a physical disk rather than a virtual disk you may see the following error message while VMware Workstation is upgrading the virtual hardware Unable to upgrade lt drivename gt One of the supplied parameters is invalid You may safely click OK to continue the upgrade process www vmware comM 48 CHAPTER 3 Upgrading VMware Workstation Note When you update the virtual hardware in a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 virtual machine the Microsoft product activation feature requires you to reactivate the guest operating system Windows hosts At the time you install VMware Workstation 4 the installer offers to convert virtual disk dsk filenames to use the vmdk extension introduced with version 3 If you still have virtual disks using the dsk extension and if you are storing virtual disk files on a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 host it is especially important that you allow VMware Workstation to make this change in order to avoid conflicts with the Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 System Restore feature The vmdk extension can be used for virtual disks under any VMware product VMware Workstation 4 automatically updates references to the virtual disk files in configuration files on the host computer If you are using the same virtual disk file from any other computer you need to update the configuration files with the new
262. ning on your host computer answer No If Samba is not already running on your host computer and you want to add it answer Yes to this question the VMware Workstation installer configures it for you When prompted for a user name and password to use with the Samba configuration enter the user name you used in step 1 above To enable host only networking respond Yes to the following prompts if they appear Do you want your virtual machines to be able to use the host s network resources Do you want to be able to use host only networking in your virtual machines Do you want this script to probe for an unused private subnet 36 www vmware com CHAPTER 2 Installing VMware Workstation This allows for the sharing of files between the virtual machine and the host operating system For more information see Host Only Networking on page 190 Note If you do not enable host only networking now you cannot allow a virtual machine to use both bridged and host only networking 9 The configuration program displays a message saying the configuration completed successfully If it does not display this message run the configuration program again 10 When done exit from the root account exit Configuring Your Web Browser To use the VMware Workstation Help system you must have a Web browser installed on your host computer VMware Workstation expects to find the Netscape browser in usr bin netscape If this matches the configuration of
263. nnection This is true for most client applications such as Web browsing Telnet passive mode FTP and downloading streaming video Additional protocol support has been built into the NAT device to allow FTP and ICMP echo ping to work completely transparently through the NAT 221 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual On the external network to which the host is connected any virtual machine on the NAT network appears to be the host itself because its network traffic uses the host s IP address It is able to send and receive data using TCP IP to any machine that is accessible from the host Before any such communication can occur the NAT device must set up a mapping between the virtual machine s address on the private NAT network and the host s network address on the external network When a virtual machine initiates a network connection with another network resource this mapping is created automatically The operation is perfectly transparent to the user of the virtual machine on the NAT network No additional work needs to be done to let the virtual machine access the external network The same cannot be said for network connections that are initiated from the external network to a virtual machine on the NAT network When a machine on the external network attempts to initiate a connection with a virtual machine on the NAT network it cannot reach the virtual machine because the NAT device does not forward the request Network connections
264. not reverse it Start by using an existing configuration file vmx and virtual disk dsk if you do not convert to new filenames when you install VMware Workstation or vmdk if you do convert The first time you power on the virtual machine under Workstation 4 a dialog box appears offering the choice of upgrading the virtual hardware or powering off If you want to make a backup copy of the virtual machine before upgrading the virtual hardware power off and make the backup Otherwise allow VMware Workstation to upgrade the virtual hardware Note Ifyou are upgrading a virtual machine that runs from a physical disk rather than a virtual disk you may see the following error message while VMware Workstation is upgrading the virtual hardware Unable to upgrade lt drivename gt One of the supplied parameters is invalid You may safely click OK to continue the upgrade process Upgrade VMware Tools to the new version following the instructions for your guest operating system in Installing VMware Tools on page 77 You should not remove the older version of VMware Tools before installing the new version Upgrading Virtual Hardware in the Guest Operating System After upgrading the virtual hardware you may need to take several steps to be sure the new virtual hardware is recognized properly by the guest operating system If you are using a Windows 95 Windows 98 or Windows Me virtual machine created under VMware Workstation 2 take t
265. ns for Moving Disks in Undoable Mode Once you commit or discard changes made to a disk in undoable mode you can move your disk between Linux and Windows host operating systems You can also move your disk to different locations on your computer and to other computers with the same host operating system However if you cannot or do not want to commit or discard the changes made to your undoable disk note the following You can always move a disk in undoable mode between host operating systems of the same general type for example between two Microsoft Windows systems or between two Linux systems Depending upon how the disk was first set up you may have to place the disk and its redo log in a directory that has a path name identical to that of the current directory You may be able to move the disk in undoable mode between Windows and Linux host systems or move the disk to a different directory on your current system if there is no path name information in the virtual machine s configuration file This is true for virtual machines created under VMware Workstation 3 1 or higher however virtual machines created with older versions of Workstation or any other VMware product contain full path names Follow these steps to check the configuration and see whether or not you can move your undoable disk without committing or discarding changes 1 Start VMware Workstation 3 If you are moving a disk in undoable mode from one computer to ano
266. ns in Moving a VMware Workstation 4 Virtual Machine on page 119 If you have created a virtual machine using VMware Workstation 3 0 or another VMware product and you want to move it to a different computer or to another directory on your host you need to perform the following tasks Note These instructions assume that you are using a virtual disk stored in a set of vmdk files on your host computer It is always safest to make backup copies of all the files in your virtual machine s directory before you start a process like this Preparing Your Virtual Machine for the Move 1 Use VMware Workstation 3 to open the virtual machine If the virtual machine has more than one virtual disk and if the virtual disks use different disk modes you must use the Virtual Machine Control Panel to change one or more of the virtual disks so they all use the same mode 2 Be sure you know whether the virtual disk is set up as an IDE disk or a SCSI disk You can check this in the Virtual Machine Control Panel Also note the size of the virtual disk you are moving You need this information when you prepare the new host machine as described in the next section 3 Be sure the guest operating system is completely shut down If the virtual machine is suspended resume it using the VMware product with which you created the virtual machine then shut down the guest operating system Note Do not move a suspended virtual machine from one host to anothe
267. ns on a Windows Host You can view and change the settings for bridged networking on your host These changes affect all virtual machines using bridged networking on the host You can decide which network adapters on your host to use for bridged networking You can map specific network adapters to specific virtual networks VMnets 1 Open a VMware Workstation window 2 Choose Edit gt Virtual Network Settings The Virtual Network Editor appears with the Summary tab active Virtual Network Editor Summary Automatic Bridging Host Virtual Network Mapping Host Virtual Adapters DHCP NAT Virtual Network Summary Subnet DHCP ot VMnet0 Bridged Bridged to an automatically chosen adapter st VMnett Host only A private network shared with the host 192 168 224 0 Enabled aT VMnetd INAT Used to share the host s IP address 192 168 177 0 Enabled Use the utomatic Bridging tab to modify the settings of the auto bridged virtual network Use the Host Virtual Network Mapping tab to associate individual virtual networks to physical and virtual adapters Use the NAT and DHCP tabs to configure their settings Use the Host Virtual Adapters tab to add or delete host virtual adapters 3 By default the VMnet0 virtual network is set up in bridged mode and bridges to one of the active Ethernet adapters on the host computer The choice of which adapter it uses is arbitrary You can restrict the range of choices using optio
268. ns on the Automatic Bridging tab Also shown are VMnet1 the default virtual network for host only networking and VMnet8 the default virtual network for NAT if they are enabled in VMware Workstation www vmware comM CHAPTER 9 Networking Virtual Network Editor Summary Automatic Bridging Host Virtual Network Mapping Host Virtual Adapters DHCP NAT Enable Automatic Bridge Automatically choose an available physical network adapter to bridge to VMnet0 Excluded adapters Do not attempt to automatically bridge to the following adapters Remove 4 To exclude one or more physical Ethernet adapters from the list to which VMnet0 may be bridged click the Automatic Bridging tab To exclude an Ethernet adapter click Add to add it to the list of excluded devices Choose Network Adapters Select the network adapters that should NOT be bridged to YMnet0 VIA PCI 10 100Mb Fast Ethernet Adapter Packet Scheduler Miniport E Intel R PRO 100 Management Adapter In the Choose Network Adapters dialog box select the listing for the adapter you want to exclude then click OK Virtual Network Editor Summary Automatic Bridging Host Virtual Network Mapping Host Virtual Adapters DHCP NAT Enable Automatic Bridge Automatically choose an available physical network adapter to bridge to VMnet0 Excluded adapters Do not attempt to automatically bridge to the following adapters HP
269. ns tab check Show VMware Tools in the taskbar In a Linux or FreeBSD virtual machine boot the guest operating system start X and launch your graphical environment Then you can launch the VMware Tools background application with this command vmware toolbox amp You may run VMware Tools as root or as anormal user To shrink virtual disks you must run VMware Tools as root su With some window managers you can place the command to start VMware Tools ina startup configuration so VMware Tools starts automatically when you start your graphical environment Consult your window manager s documentation for details Using Full Screen Mode Virtual machines run faster in full screen mode If you want your VMware Workstation virtual machine s display to fill the screen so you no longer see the borders of the VMware Workstation window click the Full Screen button on the toolbar You can also use a keyboard shortcut press the Ctrl Alt Enter keys at the same time To get out of full screen mode to show your virtual machine inside a VMware Workstation window again press the Ctrl Alt key combination You can switch between virtual machines without leaving full screen mode by using a Ctrl Alt Fn key combination where Fn is a function key corresponding to the virtual machine you want to see To find out what function key to use for a particular virtual machine check the title bar of the virtual machine while it is running
270. nt from the drop down menu then click Run Now To disable all scripts deselect Use Scripts Note Scripts cannot be run in Windows 95 NetWare and FreeBSD guest operating systems Note Scripts in Windows NT and Windows Me guest operating systems do not release and renew the IP address VMware Tools Properties Options Devices Scripts Shared Folders Shrink About Your shared folders are at host Shared Folders You can map a drive letter to this path using Windows Explorer gt Tools gt Map Network tive You can also access your shared folders from Windows Explorer under My Network Places See the user s manual for more details The Shared Folders tab provides information on where to find your shared folders For more information on shared folders see Using Shared Folders on page 104 87 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual VMware Tools Properties Options Devices Scripts Shared Folders Shrink About Supported partitions Unsupported partitions Select the partitions you wish to prepare for shrinking Prepare to shrink The Shrink tab gives you access to the controls you need if you wish to reclaim unused space in a virtual disk In some configurations it is not possible to shrink virtual disks If your virtual machine uses such a configuration the Shrink tab displays information explaining why you cannot shrink your virtual disks Using the System Console to Configure VM
271. ntaining and Changing the MAC Address of a Virtual Machine on page 207 www vmware comM 118 CHAPTER 6 Moving and Sharing Virtual Machines Moving a VMware Workstation 4 Virtual Machine What do you do if you have created a virtual machine using VMware Workstation and you want to move it to a different computer Or even somewhere else on the same computer The process is not difficult and in most cases you can even move your virtual machine from a Windows host to a Linux host or vice versa If the virtual machine was created under VMware Workstation 4 follow the directions in this section Note These instructions assume that you are using a virtual disk stored in a set of vmdk files on your host computer It s always safest to make backup copies of all the files in your virtual machine s directory before you start a process like this Virtual Machines Use Relative Paths The path names for all files associated with a VMware Workstation 4 virtual machine are relative meaning the path to each file is relative to the currently active directory For example if you are in the virtual machine s directory the relative path to the virtual disk file is lt machine name gt vmdk Preparing Your Virtual Machine for the Move 1 Shut down the guest operating system and power off the virtual machine If the virtual machine is suspended resume it then shut down the guest operating system 2 Do one of the following If you ar
272. ntly logged on to the host computer They do not affect settings made by any other user on the computer To make changes to these settings choose Edit gt Preferences Preferences Input Hot keys Workspace Keyboard and Mouse Grab keyboard and mouse input on mouse click C Grab keyboard and mouse input on key press Cursor These options are effective only when YMware Tools is running in the virtual machine Ungrab when cursor leaves window Hide cursor on ungrab C Scroll when cursor approaches window edge Grab when cursor enters window Copy and paste Enable copy and paste to and from virtual machine Cancel Help Input The Input tab lets you adjust the way that the virtual machine captures control of keyboard and mouse Note The Grab when cursor enters window option allows you to move the mouse pointer back into the virtual machine window easily if you have been working in the virtual machine then temporarily moved the mouse pointer outside the virtual machine window The mouse pointer is grabbed only when VMware Workstation has focus is the active application Also if you release the mouse pointer by pressing a www vmware comM 110 CHAPTER 5 Running VMware Workstation hot key combination Ctrl Alt by default you must click inside the virtual machine window to make VMware Workstation grab the mouse pointer again Preferences Input Hot keys Workspace Hot key combination Ctr Alt O C
273. o the virtual disk file is lt machine name gt vmdk If you intend to move virtual machines created in a VMware product other than VMware Workstation 3 1 or higher even VMware Workstation 3 0 see Moving an Older Virtual Machine on page 124 Preparing Your Virtual Machine for the Move 1 Use VMware Workstation 3 to open the virtual machine If the virtual machine has more than one virtual disk and if the virtual disks use different disk modes 121 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual you must use the Virtual Machine Control Panel to change one or more of the virtual disks so they all use the same mode 2 Be sure the guest operating system is completely shut down If the virtual machine is suspended and its virtual disks are in persistent or nonpersistent mode resume it then shut down the guest operating system 3 If your virtual machine is using disks in undoable mode it is best to commit or discard the changes when the guest operating system shuts down If you cannot commit or discard the changes to your disk read Considerations for Moving Disks in Undoable Mode on page 126 Note If your disks are using nonpersistent mode you must also move the redo log REDO file to the new host computer By default it is located in your host operating system s temp directory 4 Do one of the following If you are moving the virtual machine to a new host and have a network connection between the original host machine and the new h
274. oaded file from the Start menu choose Run browse to the directory where you saved the downloaded installer file and run the installer The filename is similar to VMwareWorkstation lt XXXX gt exe Where lt xxxx gt is a series of numbers representing the version and build numbers 3 The Welcome dialog box appears Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for Mware Workstation The InstallShield R Wizard will install Mware Workstation on your computer To continue click Next WARNING This program is protected by copyright law and international treaties Click Next i VMware Workstation License Agreement Please read the follo EHD USER LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR VMWARE TM DESKTOP SOFTWARE PRODUCT VMWARE INC LICENSES THIS DESKTOP SOFTWARE PRODUCT TO YOU SUBJECT TO YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF ALL OF THE TERMS CONTAINED IN THIS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT EULA READ THE TERMS OF THIS EULA CAREFULLY IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT AND YOU HAVE PROOF OF PAYMENT YOU MAY RETURN THE UNOPENED SOFTWARE TO THE LOCATION AT HUTOI WAN acATTNEN TT MTTUTM Turney fans DAWG PAN A Yes I accept the terms in the license agreement CON I do not accept the terms in the license agreement Installshield 4 Acknowledge the end user license agreement EULA Select the Yes accept the terms in the license agreement option then click Next 30 Fico CHAPTER 2 Installing VMware Workstation i VMware Workstation Destin
275. ol Panel lets you map virtual SCSI devices to physical generic SCSI devices on the host When you set up a generic SCSI device the virtual machine must be powered off 1 Launch VMware Workstation and select the virtual machine Make sure the virtual machine is powered off 2 Choose Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings The Virtual Machine Control Panel opens 3 Click Add to start the Add Hardware Wizard Select Generic SCSI Device then click Next 4 Choose the name of the physical device you want to use Then choose the virtual device node where you want this device to appear in the virtual machine A check box under Device status allows you to specify whether the device should be connected each time the virtual machine is powered on 5 Click Finish to install the new device 6 Click OK to save the configuration and close the Virtual Machine Control Panel To remove this device launch the Virtual Machine Control Panel select the generic SCSI device then click Remove 282 i UUS 12 Performance Tuning CHAPTER 12 283 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Adjusting Virtual Machines for Best Performance The following sections offer suggestions for getting the best performance from VMware Workstation and your virtual machines Configuring and Maintaining the Host Computer on page 285 Configuring VMware Workstation on page 286 e General VMware Workstation Options on page 286 e VMware Workstation on a Windows
276. on it returns to the snapshot To remove the restriction on the interface take the following steps 1 Power off the virtual machine and close the VMware Workstation window 2 Open the configuration file vmx file and do one of the following Set qui restricted false Remove or comment out the gui restricted true line Save the changes to the configuration file and close it 3 Start the virtual machine by double clicking the shortcut The virtual machine starts at the snapshot and the interface is not restricted 307 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 308 o oen 14 Glossary CHAPTER 14 309 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Glossary Bridged networking Atype of network connection between a virtual machine and the rest of the world Under bridged networking a virtual machine appears as an additional computer on the same physical Ethernet network as the host See also Host only networking Configuration See Virtual machine configuration file Custom networking Any type of network connection between virtual machines and the host that does not use the default bridged host only or network address translation NAT networking configurations For instance different virtual machines can be connected to the host by separate networks or connected to each other and not to the host Any network topology is possible Drag and drop With the drag and drop feature of VMware Workstation you can
277. on page 16 The VMware Workstation installation software If you bought the packaged distribution of VMware Workstation the installation software is on the CD in your package If you bought the electronic distribution the installation software is in the file you downloaded Your VMware Workstation serial number The serial number is included in the VMware Workstation package or in the email message confirming your electronic distribution order The installation CD or disks for your guest operating system Installing the VMware Workstation Software 1 Log on to your Microsoft Windows host as the Administrator user or as a user who is amember of the Windows Administrators group Caution Do not install VMware Workstation on a Windows NT Server 4 0 system that is configured as a primary or backup domain controller 29 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Note On a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 host computer you must be logged in as a local administrator that is not logged in to the domain in order to install VMware Workstation Note Although you must be logged in as an administrator to install VMware Workstation a user with normal user privileges can run the program after it is installed Keep in mind that you need one license for each user 2 Ifyou are installing from a CD from the Start menu choose Run and enter D setup exe where D is the drive letter for your CD ROM drive If you are installing from a downl
278. on the NAT network provided that the WINS server is already set up on the host If you want to connect from the virtual machine to a WINS server not set up on the host you can manually enter the IP address of the WINS server Using NAT to Connect to an Existing WINS Server Already Set Up on the Host In order to use this method a WINS server in the same workgroup or domain must be set up on the host These steps use Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 as a guide The process is similar for Windows NT Windows Me and Windows 9x guests 1 In the virtual machine right click on My Network Places and select Properties 2 In the Network Connections window right click the virtual network adapter and select Properties 3 Inthe Properties dialog box select Internet Protocol TCP IP then click Properties 4 Inthe TCP IP Properties dialog box click Advanced 5 Click the WINS tab then under NetBIOS setting select Use NetBIOS setting from DHCP Server 6 Click OK twice then click Close CHAPTER 9 Networking 227 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Manually Entering the IP Address of a WINS Server Use this method to connect to a WINS server in the same workgroup or domain that is not already set up on the host 1 In the virtual machine right click on My Network Places and select Properties 2 In the Network Connections window right click the virtual network adapter and select Properties 3 Inthe Properti
279. onfiguration 3 Connect to Two Host Only Interfaces 1 Create the virtual machine using the New Virtual Machine Wizard or use an existing virtual machine 2 Launch VMware Workstation and open the virtual machine 3 Edit the configuration using the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings Windows host Select the first network adapter in the list of devices then select Host only VMnet1 from the drop down list on the right Select the second network adapter in the list of devices then select Custom VMnet2 from the drop down list on the right If you need to add one or more network adapters click Add then use the Add Hardware Wizard to add an adapter Linux host Click the sign to expand the Ethernet Adapters list and select the first adapter From the Connection Type drop down list on the right select Host only If the list of devices indicates the adapter is not installed click Install Select the second adapter and from the Connection Type drop down list on the right select Custom In the VMnet field tyoe dev vmnet2 If the list of devices indicates the adapter is not installed click Install At this point you can power on the virtual machine and install your guest operating system In configurations 1 and 2 you see one AMD PCNet Family Adapter In configuration 3 you see two AMD PCNet Family Adapters within the guest Configure the Ethernet adapters as you would physical adapters on a phys
280. operating system Check the guest operating system documentation regarding the type of partition on which the operating system can be installed For example operating systems like DOS Windows 95 and Windows 98 must be installed on the first primary partition while others like Linux can be installed on a primary or extended partition on any part of the drive Identify an appropriate raw partition or disk for the guest operating system to use Be sure that the raw partition is not mounted by the Windows host and not in use by others Also be sure the raw partition or disk does not have data you will need in the future if it does back up that data now 2 Start the New Virtual Machine Wizard File gt New gt New Virtual Machine and select Custom New Virtual Machine Wizard Select a Disk Which disk do you want this drive to use Disk Create a new virtual disk virtual disk is composed of one or more files on the host file system which will appear as a single hard disk to the guest operating system Virtual disks can easily be copied or moved on the same host or between hosts Use an existing virtual disk Choose this option to reuse a previously configured disk Use a physical disk for advanced users Choose this option to give the virtual machine direct access to a local hard disk 3 When you reach the Select a Disk step select Use a physical disk 167 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Add Hard
281. or floppy image files Serial COM Ports Up to four serial COM ports Output to serial ports Windows or Linux files or named pipes Parallel LPT Ports Up to two bidirectional parallel LPT ports Output to parallel ports or host operating system files USB ports Two port USB 1 1 UHCI controller Supports devices including USB printers scanners PDAs hard disk drives memory card readers and still digital cameras Keyboard 104 key Windows 95 98 enhanced Mouse and Drawing Tablets PS 2 mouse Serial tablets supported Ethernet Card Up to three virtual Ethernet cards AMD PCnet PCl Il compatible Sound Sound output and input Emulates Creative Labs Sound Blaster AudioPCl MIDI input game controllers and joysticks not supported Virtual Networking Nine virtual Ethernet switches three configured by default for bridged host only and NAT networking Virtual networking supports most Ethernet based protocols including TCP IP NetBEUI Microsoft Networking Samba Novell NetWare and Network File System 20 www vmMware com CHAPTER 1 Introduction and System Requirements Built in NAT supports client software using TCP IP FTP DNS HTTP and Telnet 21 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Supported Guest Operating Systems The operating systems listed here have been tested in VMware Workstation 4 virtual machines and are officially supported For notes on installing the most common guest operating systems see the VMware Guest
282. orkstation on a Linux host The debugger virtual machine must be running Debugging Tools for Windows WinDbg or Kernel Debugger KD in a Windows guest operating system To prepare the target virtual machine follow the steps for the server virtual machine for the appropriate host in Connecting Two Virtual Machines on page 258 Make sure 264 www vmMware com when you configure the target virtual machine s virtual serial port that you select the Yield CPU on poll check box as the kernel in the target virtual machine uses the virtual serial port in polled mode not interrupt mode To prepare the debugger virtual machine make sure you have downloaded Debugging Tools for Windows Then follow the steps for the client virtual machine in Connecting Two Virtual Machines on page 258 When you are ready to begin complete the following steps 1 Power on both virtual machines 2 Check to make sure the serial port is connected Choose choose Edit gt Removable Devices If the serial port is not connected choose the virtual serial port then Connect 3 Inthe debugger virtual machine start debugging with WinDbg or KD normally CHAPTER 11 Connecting Devices 265 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Keyboard Mapping on a Linux Host This section addresses the following issues and provides additional details on keyboard mapping in Linux My language specific keyboard is not supported by VMware Workstation Some of the keys on my keybo
283. ory size 112 setting size 292 virtual machine memory size 292 Migrate disks in undoable mode 126 upgrading virtual disks 78 virtual machine 47 58 124 Mode full screen 99 310 nonpersistent compared to snap shot 179 180 persistent compared to snapshot 179 180 quick switch 100 311 snapshot and disk modes compared 179 undoable compared to snapshot 179 180 Mouse sending input to virtual machine 110 USB 278 Move virtual machine 118 MS DOS supported guest operating systems 22 N NAT advanced configuration 222 and DHCP 221 and DNS 221 and the host computer 220 defined 311 external access from a NAT network 221 on virtual network 189 220 sample configuration file for Linux host 228 selecting IP addresses 203 virtual device 186 when creating a virtual machine 70 nat conf 223 228 NetWare See Novell NetWare Network adding and modifying virtual Ether net adapters 195 automatic bridging 196 bridge 186 319 320 bridged networking 310 changing DHCP settings 198 changing subnet settings 198 changing the configuration 195 common configurations 188 components 186 configuring 184 configuring bridged networking options 196 custom configurations 192 custom networking 310 DHCP 203 DHCP server 187 dial up connection 207 dynamic domain name service 210 enabling host only networking on Linux host 36 hardware address 207 host virtual adapter 186 host virtual network mapping 198 host only 190
284. ost see VMware Workstation on a Windows Host on page 289 Using Full Screen Mode Full screen mode is faster than window mode As a result if you do not need to have your virtual machine and your host sharing the screen try switching to full screen mode Note The extreme case of this is VGA mode VGA mode is any mode in which the screen is in text mode DOS for example or Linux virtual terminals or 16 color 640 x 480 graphics mode for example the Windows 95 or Windows 98 clouds boot screen or any guest operating system that is running without the SVGA driver provided by VMware Tools On a Linux host full screen VGA mode uses the underlying video card directly so graphics performance is quite close to that of the host By contrast window mode VGA requires more computer resources to emulate than window mode SVGA As a result if you need to run for an extended period of time in VGA mode for example when you are installing an operating system using a graphical installer you should see a significant performance boost if you run in full screen mode System Timer Certain guests Windows 98 for example expect a very high interrupt rate from their system timers VMware Workstation on a Linux host uses dev rtc the real time clock device to try to keep up However continually servicing dev rtc and using 290 o omen CHAPTER 12 Performance Tuning it to maintain a high interrupt rate increases the load on the host even when t
285. ost you are finished with the preparations on the original host Otherwise you need to have a way of moving the virtual disk vmdk files from the virtual machine s directory to the new host You could move them to a shared network directory for example or burn them to CD ROMs if they are not too large Once you know how you are going to move the virtual machine go to Moving a Virtual Machine to a New Host Machine on page 122 If you are moving this virtual machine to another directory on the same host you are ready to make the move Copy all the files in the virtual machine s original directory to the new location If you stored any files in directories other than the virtual machine directory be sure to move them into a directory of the same name and same position relative to the location of the virtual machine Start VMware Workstation 4 and open the virtual machine you just moved Choose File gt Open then browse to the virtual machine s configuration vmx file Moving a Virtual Machine to a New Host Machine 1 Make sure VMware Workstation is installed and working correctly on the new host computer 2 Locate the virtual disk files you are moving and copy them into the new virtual machine directory Be sure to copy all the files in the virtual machine s original 122 Fico CHAPTER 6 Moving and Sharing Virtual Machines directory If you stored any files in directories other than the virtual machine directory be sure to
286. ou are doing in various virtual machines and on the host computer To change the settings for a particular virtual machine and override the global settings open the virtual machine you want to adjust choose Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings click the Options tab select Advanced then use the drop down lists under Process priorities to make the setting you want for that virtual machine There is no corresponding setting on a Linux host Application Settings Memory Priority Lockout Enable administrative lockout Select the actions to lock then enter a password in both fields Users must provide this password when performing an action that is locked here Create new virtual machines C Edit virtual machine configutations C Manage virtual networks Password Confirm password Administrative lockout for certain features he Lockout tab on a Windows host lets you restrict who can create new virtual machines edit virtual machine configurations and change networking settings For details see Locking Out Interface Features on page 303 There are no corresponding settings on a Linux host 113 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Command Reference Linux Host The following list describes various options available when you run VMware Workstation from the command line on a Linux host operating system vmware x X q v lt path_to_config gt lt config gt vmx X toolkit options x au
287. ou choose to change the color settings in the guest operating system the approach depends on the combination of host and guest you are using 241 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Follow the normal process for changing screen colors in your guest operating system In a Windows guest the Display Properties control panel offers only those settings that are supported In a Linux or FreeBSD guest you must change the color depth before you start the X server or restart the X server after making the changes 242 WWWw vmware com CHAPTER 10 Video and Sound Changing XFree86 Video Resolutions on a Linux Host You can configure VMware Workstation on a Linux host to change the full screen display resolution to better match the resolution set in the guest operating system On a Windows host this is done by default and you do not need to change any configuration settings VMware Workstation uses the VidMode extension from the XFree86 Project to match the host resolution to the one requested by the guest running in the virtual machine Configuration The option Find best resolution in full screen mode is on by default When on this option allows VMware Workstation to locate the best resolution for your host operating system thus minimizing or eliminating the black border that earlier versions of VMware Workstation displayed when the guest operating system was in full screen mode You can change the default for Find best resolution in fu
288. ows then click OK 10 Windows asks for the file Locproxy exe Enter the location C Windows System then click OK 11 Windows asks for the file ndishlp sys Enter the location C Windows then click OK 12 Windows asks for the file wsock vxd Enter the location C Windows System then click OK 13 When you finish installing the AMD Family Ethernet Adapter restart Windows 98 14 Plug and Play detects multiple devices and restarts Windows 98 15 After the virtual machine restarts install the new version of VMware Tools For details see Installing VMware Tools on page 77 16 Shut down Windows and power off the virtual machine 17 Choose File gt Upgrade Virtual Hardware 18 A dialog box cautions you that the operation is irreversible and recommends that you back up the virtual disks before proceeding If you are ready to proceed click Yes 19 A dialog box displays a message describing what is about to happen Click OK to continue 20 Power on the virtual machine When Windows boots it detects the PCI SVGA adapter Later it detects the Vmware SVGA II adapter and installs the driver for it automatically 21 Windows detects PCI Multimedia Audio and offers to install a driver for it Click Cancel 54 www vmMware com CHAPTER 3 Upgrading VMware Workstation 22 Windows detects an AMD PCNET Family Ethernet adapter Click Next 23 Select Search for the best driver and click Next 24 Select Specify a locatio
289. ows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Guest Operating System Performance Tips This section offers advice for configuring a Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 guest operating system for better performance inside a VMware Workstation virtual machine Note This document pertains to the guest operating system that is running inside a VMware Workstation virtual machine It does not describe actions that should be taken on Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 running on the host computer Guest Operating System Selection Make certain you have selected the correct guest operating system in the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings gt Options VMware Tools Make certain VMware Tools is installed VMware Tools provides an optimized SVGA driver and sets up the VMware Tools service to run automatically when the system starts Among other things the VMware Tools service allows you to synchronize the virtual machine s clock with the host computer s clock which can improve performance for some functions You can install VMware Tools by choosing File gt Install VMware Tools Disconnect CD ROM and dev rtc Using the Edit gt Removable Devices menu disconnect your CD ROM drive if you do not need to use it If you are using a Linux host also disconnect dev rte Disconnecting these devices reduces CPU usage Note The time synchronization feature in VMware Tools does not rely on jdev rt
290. pack the archive tar zxf VMware lt xxxx gt tar gz Change to the installation directory cd vmware distrib Run the installation script vmware install pl 35 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Accept the default directories for the binary files library files manual files documentation files and init script 6 Run the configuration script vmware config pl Note If you use the RPM installer you need to run this script separately from the command line If you install from the tar archive the installer offers to launch the configuration script for you Answer Yes when you see the prompt Use this script to reconfigure VMware Workstation whenever you upgrade your kernel It is not necessary to reinstall VMware Workstation after you upgrade your kernel You can also use vmware config pl to reconfigure the networking options for VMware Workstation for example to add or remove host only networks 7 Press Enter to read the end user license agreement EULA You may page through it by pressing the space bar Ifthe Do you accept prompt doesn t appear press Q to get to the next prompt 8 The remaining prompts are worded in such a way that in most cases the default response is appropriate Some exceptions are noted here The configuration script prompts you Do you want this script to automatically configure your system to allow your virtual machines to access the host s file system If you already have Samba run
291. pping 267 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual xkeymap keycode lt code gt lt v scan code gt If using key code mapping map key code lt code gt to lt v scan code gt In this example lt code gt must be a decimal number and lt v scan code gt should be a C syntax hexadecimal number for example 0x001 The easiest way to find the X key code fora key is to run xev orxmodmap pk Most of the v scan codes are covered in V Scan Code Table on page 269 The keysym mapping tables described in this section are also helpful Use this feature to make small modifications to the mapping For example to swap left Ctrl and Caps Lock use the following lines xkeymap keycode 64 0x01d X Caps _Lock gt VM left ctrl xkeymap keycode 37 0x03a X Control_L gt VM caps lock These configuration lines can be added to the individual virtual machine configuration to your personal VMware Workstation configuration vmware config or even to the host wide etc vmware config or installation wide usually usr local 1ib vmware config configuration When key code mapping cannot be used or is disabled VMware Workstation maps keysyms to v scan codes It does this using one of the tables in the xkeymap directory in the VMware Workstation installation usually usr local 1lib vmware Which table you should use depends on the keyboard layout The normal distribution includes tables for PC keyboards for the United States and a numbe
292. ps to set administrative lockout preferences 1 Open the Application Settings dialog box Edit gt Application Settings 2 Click the Lockout tab If a password is already set for the administrative lockout feature enter the password when prompted Application Settings Memory Priority Lockout Enable administrative lockout Select the actions to lock then enter a password in both fields Users must provide this password when performing an action that is locked here Create new virtual machines C Edit virtual machine configutations C Manage virtual networks Password Confirm password 3 Be sure Enable administrative lockout is selected and select the actions you want to restrict If this is the first time administrative lockout options have been set enter a password in the Password field and again in the Confirm password field 4 Click OK to save the settings Removing a Forgotten Password If you cannot remember the password and want to remove it you must uninstall Workstation Be sure to click Yes when asked if you want to remove the administrative 303 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual lockout settings After you reinstall Workstation you may enable the administrative lockout features again and set a new password 304 WWWw vmware com CHAPTER 13 Special Purpose Configuration Options Restricting the User Interface The restricted user interface affects only the specific virtual machines for w
293. r 4 f your virtual machine is using disks in undoable mode it is best to commit or discard the changes when the guest operating system shuts down If you cannot commit or discard the changes to your disk read Considerations for Moving Disks in Undoable Mode on page 126 5 Ifyou have a network connection between the original host machine and the new host you are finished with the preparations on the original host Otherwise you need to have a way of moving the virtual disk vmdk files from the virtual machine s directory to the new host You could move them to a shared network directory for example or burn them to CD ROMs if they are not too large 1 24 www vmMware com CHAPTER 6 Moving and Sharing Virtual Machines Note f your disks are using undoable mode and you have not committed or discarded your changes you must also move the redo log REDO file to the new host computer Preparing the New Host Machine ie Make sure VMware Workstation 4 is installed and working correctly on the new host computer Run the New Virtual Machine Wizard and select the appropriate guest operating system for the virtual machine you are moving Choose a virtual disk for your hard drive and use a drive size and type IDE or SCSI that matches the size and type of the virtual disk you plan to move Select all appropriate network floppy and CD ROM settings Do not make any changes with the Virtual Machine Control Panel at this point
294. r Mnet1 BY VMware Network Adapter Mnet Disable adapter Add new adapter 2 Select the adapter you want to remove then click Remove adapter 3 Click OK 201 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Removing a Host Virtual Adapter on a Linux Host 1 Become root and run the VMware Workstation configuration script su vmnware config pl 2 Watch for the following question Do you want networking for your Virtual Machines yes no help yes Answer Yes if you still want to use any networking in your virtual machines then continue to the next question Otherwise answer No to remove all networking 3 If you answer Yes the script prompts you to select the wizard or editor to edit your network configuration Select editor This is the only way to delete virtual network adapters without removing all of them Would you prefer to modify your existing networking configuration using the wizard or the editor wizard editor help wizard editor 4 You see a list of virtual networks that have been configured Select the network corresponding to the adapter you wish to disable The following virtual networks have been defined vmnetO is bridged to eth0 vmnetl is a host only network on subnet 172 16 155 0 vmmet8 is NAT network on a private subnet 172 16 107 0 Which virtual network do you wish to configure 0 99 1 5 You may be prompted to keep this virtual network If you are sure you want to remo
295. r device ownership The master raw disk devices must be readable and writable by the user who runs VMware Workstation On most distributions the raw devices such as dev hda and www vmMware com dev hdb belong to group id disk If this is the case you can add VMware Workstation users to the disk group Another option is to change the owner of the device Please think carefully about security issues when you explore different options here It is typically a good idea to grant VMware Workstation users access to all dev hd abcd raw devices that contain operating systems or boot managers and then rely on VMware Workstation s raw disk configuration files to guard access This provides boot managers access to configuration and other files they may need to boot the operating systems For example LILO needs to read boot ona Linux partition to boot a non Linux operating system that may be on another drive If you plan to run a second Linux installation from an existing partition as a guest operating system and your physical machine s etc lilo conf hasa memory register statement such as Append mem you may want to adjust the append memory parameter or create a new entry in LILO for running Linux in a virtual machine Many newer Linux distributions recognize all physical memory in the physical machine whereas many older Linux distributions see only the first 64MB of memory by default Machines with more than 64MB of memory that run t
296. r of European countries and languages And for most of these there are both the 101 key or 102 key and the 104 key or 105 key variants VMware Workstation automatically determines which table to use by examining the current X keymap However its decision making process may sometimes fail In addition each mapping is fixed and may not be completely right for any given keyboard and X key code to keysym mapping For example a user may have swapped Ctrl and Caps Lock using xmodmap This means the keys are swapped in the virtual machine when using a remote server keysym mapping but unswapped when using a local server key code mapping Therefore keysym mapping is necessarily imperfect To make up for this defect you can change most of the behavior using configuration settings xkeymap language lt keyboard type gt Use this if VMware Workstation has a table in xkeymap for your keyboard but can t detect it lt keyboard type gt must be one of the tables in the 268 o omen CHAPTER 11 Connecting Devices xkeymap directory See above for location However the failure to detect the keyboard probably means the table isn t completely correct for you xkeymap keysym lt sym gt lt v Scan code gt If you use keysym mapping map keysym lt sym gt to lt v scan code gt When you do lt sym gt must be an X keysym name and lt v scan code gt should bea C syntax hexadecimal number for example 0x001 The easiest way to find the
297. r than 640 x 480 If either width or height is smaller than the corresponding dimension required for VGA the programs refuse to run Error messages may include such phrases as VGA Required To Install or You must have VGA to install There are two ways to work around this problem If your host computer s screen resolution is high enough you can enlarge the window choose Fit Guest to Window to deselect it then choose Fit Guest to Window once more to select it again 101 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual If your host computer s screen resolution does not allow you to enlarge the window enough do not use Fit Guest to Window If it is selected choose it again to deselect it Then set the guest operating system s screen resolution to 640 x 480 or larger Simplifying the Screen Display If you prefer you can turn off display of many of the controls visible in the VMware Workstation window Use the View menu to toggle the following controls on or off Favorites panel Toolbar Status bar Virtual machine tabs On a Windows host you can also hide the menu bar To do so click the title bar icon then choose Hide Controls Windows XP Professional apshot Move J o Minimize X Close Alt F4 Hide Controls Choosing Hide Controls hides the menu bar the toolbar the status bar and the Favorites panel 102 Fico CHAPTER 5 Running VMware Workstation For the simplest possible VMware Workstation window o
298. re Virtual Machine 1 Power on the virtual machine 2 Prepare your virtual machine to install VMware Tools Choose File gt Install VMware Tools The remaining steps take place inside the virtual machine 3 Load the CD9660 NSS driver so the CD ROM device mounts the ISO image as a volume In the system console type LOAD CD9660 NSS 4 When the driver finishes loading you can begin installing VMware Tools In the system console type vmwtools setup ncf 5 Restart the guest operating system In the system console type restart server 85 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual VMware Tools Configuration Options This section shows the options available in a Windows XP guest operating system Similar configuration options are available in VMware Tools for other guest operating systems fl 11 To open the VMware Tools control panel double click the VMware Tools icon in the system tray If the VMware Tools icon does not appear in the system tray go to Start gt Control Panel VMware Tools Properties Options Devices Scripts Shared Folders Shrink About Miscellaneous Options Time synchronization between the virtual machine and the host operating system M Show VMware Tools in the taskbar The Options tab shows the Miscellaneous Options Time synchronization between the virtual machine and the host operating system Note You can synchronize the time in the guest operating system with the time o
299. re different from those used in other guest operating systems Overview of the VMware Workstation Window Think of your VMware Workstation virtual machine as a separate computer that runs in a window on your physical computer s desktop The Workstation window lets you run multiple virtual machines and switch easily from one to another Windows XP Professional Ctrl Alt F1 VMware Workstation File Edit Power Snapshot View Windows Help E ii ld G F Snapshot E Revert FD e fr Favorites X Windows XP Professional Windows 2000 Professional Red Hat Linux 6 0 B Windows z E Windows XP Professional Gj Windows 2000 Professional 3 Linux E Document WordPad Ef Red Hat Linux 8 0 Fie Edit View Insert Format Help GA Mandrake Linux 8 1 Del SRA tben B Arial westen Welcome to VMware Workstation For Help press F1 start E Document WordPad VMware Workstation main window on a Windows host Right click the icon for a removable device on the status bar to disconnect it or edit its configuration One Window or Many Your Choice e In VMware Workstation 4 you can open multiple virtual machines in the same Workstation window Or you can launch multiple instances of VMware Workstation You can even run multiple instances of VMware Workstation and have more than one virtual machine in each window Just be sure you have enough memory and processor power to handle the number of v
300. ready to proceed click Yes 8 Adialog box displays a message describing what is about to happen Click OK to continue 9 You can now power on the virtual machine and use the new configuration Windows NT does not have a Plug and Play process so no additional steps are required Windows 98 Guest The following steps provide examples of what you may see as your guest operating system recognizes the new virtual hardware The specific steps may vary depending on the configuration of the virtual machine 1 Z Power on the virtual machine and let it update the CMOS Windows detects an Intel 82371EB Power Management Controller Go to C Windows System for the necessary file Windows detects lpt vxd Go to C Windows System for the necessary file 53 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 4 Windows detects an Intel 82443BX Pentium Processor to PCI bridge Go to C Windows System for the necessary file 5 Windows detects an Intel 82371AB EB PCI Bus Master IDE controller Go to C Windows System for the necessary file 6 Windows detects an Intel 82371AB EB PCI to USB Universal host controller Go to C Windows System for the necessary file 7 Windows detects an AMD PCNET Family Ethernet Adapter Go to C Windows System for the necessary file 8 Windows asks for the file uncd sys Enter the location C Windows System32 drivers then click OK 9 Windows asks for the file inetmib1 d11 Enter the location C Wind
301. recognized properly by the guest operating system If your guest operating system is listed below the instructions for that guest operating system provide examples of the steps you may need to take to perform these updates Windows XP Guest The following steps provide examples of what you may see as your guest operating system recognizes the new virtual hardware The specific steps may vary depending on the configuration of the virtual machine 1 Power on the virtual machine and let it update the CMOS 2 Install the new version of VMware Tools For details see Installing VMware Tools on page 7 7 3 Shut down Windows and power off the virtual machine 4 Choose File gt Upgrade Virtual Hardware 5 Adialog box cautions you that the operation is irreversible and recommends that you back up the virtual disks before proceeding If you are ready to proceed click Yes 6 Adialog box displays a message describing what is about to happen Click OK to continue 7 Power on the virtual machine 8 Windows detects the VMware SVGA adapter Select Install the software automatically and follow the on screen instructions 50 www vmMware com A CHAPTER 3 Upgrading VMware Workstation A dialog box asks you to insert a disk Navigate to C Program Files VMware drivers to install the VMware SVGA Il adapter 10 If you have serial ports configured in the virtual machine go to the Windows Device Manager and uninstall all the COM po
302. reeBSD FreeBSD 4 0 4 6 2 4 8 Note If you use SCSI virtual disks larger than 2GB with FreeBSD 4 0 4 3 there are known problems and the guest operating system does not boot To work around this issue see the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide available from the VMware Web site or from the Help menu 23 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Technical Support Resources Documentation on the Web Full documentation for VMware Workstation including the latest updates to the manual can be found on the VMware Web site at www vmware com support VMware Knowledge Base You can find troubleshooting notes and tips for advanced users in the knowledge base on the VMware Web site at www vmware com kb VMware Newsgroups The VMware newsgroups are primarily forums for users to help each other You are encouraged to read and post issues work arounds and fixes While VMware personnel may read and post to the newsgroups they are not a channel for official support The VMware NNTP news server is at news vmware com For a listing of all current newsgroups and the topic areas they cover see www vmware com support newsgroups html Reporting Problems If you have problems while running VMware Workstation please report them to the VMware support team These guidelines describe the information we need from you to diagnose problems If a virtual machine exits abnormally or crashes please save the log file before you launch anoth
303. rive on the host computer Select Use ISO Image if you want to connect the virtual machine s drive to an ISO image file Do one of the following If you selected Use physical drive choose the drive you want to use from the drop down list or choose Auto detect If you do not want the CD drive connected when the virtual machine starts deselect Connect at power on Click Advanced if you want to specify the device node the drive should use in the virtual machine On the advanced settings screen you may also select Legacy emulation This is necessary only if you have had problems using normal mode The legacy emulation mode does not support all the capabilities of normal mode For example if you are using legacy emulation mode you cannot record CDs you cannot read multisession CDs you cannot extract digital audio from a CD and you cannot read or write DVDs For details see Legacy Emulation for DVD and CD Drives on page 144 After you have made any desired changes in these settings click Finish If you selected Use ISO Image enter the path and filename for the image file or click Browse to navigate to the file If you do not want the CD drive connected when the virtual machine starts deselect Connect at power on Click Advanced if you want to specify the device node the drive should use in the virtual machine After you have made any desired changes in these settings click Finish CHAPTER 7 Using Disks 143 VMware Workst
304. rks Addresses can also be assigned statically from a pool of addresses that are not assigned by the DHCP server When host only networking is enabled at the time VMware Workstation is installed the network number to use for the virtual network is automatically selected as an unused private IP network number To find out what network is used on a Windows host choose Edit gt Virtual Network Settings and check the subnet number associated with the virtual network On a Linux host run ifconfig ina terminal A NAT configuration also uses an unused private network automatically selected when you install VMware Workstation To find out what network is used on a Windows host choose Edit gt Virtual Network Settings and check the subnet number associated with the virtual network On a Linux host run ifconfigina terminal Using DHCP to assign IP addresses is simpler and more automatic than statically assigning them Most Windows operating systems for example come preconfigured to use DHCP at boot time so Windows virtual machines can connect to the network the first time they are booted without additional configuration If you want your virtual machines to communicate with each other using names instead of IP addresses however you must set up a naming convention a name server on the private network or both In that case it may be simpler to use static IP addresses 203 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual In general if you have virtual
305. rkstation 4 User s Manual communicate over a serial connection For more information see Special Configuration Options for Advanced Users on page 262 9 Click Finish then click OK to close the Virtual Machine Control Panel 10 On your host computer configure the application that communicates with the virtual machine to use the same pipe name 11 Power on the virtual machine Linux Host 1 Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings Click Add to start the Add Hardware Wizard Select Serial Port then click Next Select Output to named pipe then click Next a A W N In the Path field enter tmp lt socket gt or another Unix socket name of your choice 6 Select This end is the server or This end is the client In general select This end is the server if you plan to start this end of the connection first 7 Select The other end is an application 8 By default the device status setting is Connect at power on You may deselect this setting if you wish Click Advanced if you want to configure this serial port to use polled mode This option is of interest primarily to developers who are using debugging tools that communicate over a serial connection For more information see Special Configuration Options for Advanced Users on page 262 9 Click Finish 10 Click OK to save your configuration and close the Virtual Machine Control Panel 11 On your host computer configure the application
306. roaches you can take to setting up virtual machines under VMware Workstation 4 Choose one of these approaches Create Everything New from the Start on page 47 Use an Existing Configuration File and Virtual Disk on page 47 Use an Existing Virtual Machine and Upgrade the Virtual Hardware on page 48 Create Everything New from the Start Use the New Virtual Machine Wizard to set up a new virtual machine and install a guest operating system in the virtual machine as described in Creating a New Virtual Machine on page 63 If you set up your virtual machines in this way you will be using the latest technology and will enjoy the best possible virtual machine performance Use an Existing Configuration File and Virtual Disk Upgrade VMware Tools to the new version following the instructions for your guest operating system in Installing VMware Tools on page 77 You should not remove the older version of VMware Tools before installing the new version A virtual machine set up in this way should run without problems However you will not have the benefits of certain new features including improved sound quality support for taking a snapshot while the virtual machine is running and improved virtual disk formats Note The first time you power on the virtual machine under VMware Workstation 4 Workstation updates the CMOS As a result your guest operating system may detect hardware changes and install new drivers for the new hardware even if you do not
307. roceeding 2 Check to see what SCSI ID is set for the drive you plan to use in the virtual machine 3 Make certain that in addition to any SCSI drivers you have configured for the host you have also installed the driver for a Mylex BusLogic BT KT 958 compatible host bus adapter Drivers for BusLogic controllers are available from the LSI Logic Web site www silogic com Search the site for Mylex BusLogic BT KT 958 The BusLogic driver needs to be installed in the profile for the guest operating system Note To use SCSI devices in a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 virtual machine you need a special SCSI driver available from the download section of the VMware Web site at www vmware com download 4 Check operating system partition mounts Be sure the existing raw disk partitions that you plan to configure the virtual machine to use are not mounted by the Linux host Caution A raw disk partition should not be used mounted simultaneously by the host and the guest operating system Because each operating system is unaware of the other data corruption may occur if both operating systems read or write to the same partition It is critical that the virtual machine not be allowed to modify any partition mounted under the Linux host or in use by another virtual machine To safeguard against this problem be sure the partition you use for the virtual machine is not mounted under the Linux host 5 Set the device group membership o
308. rts listed there 11 Restart the virtual machine 12 Windows detects the COM ports and installs them properly Windows Me Guest The following steps provide examples of what you may see as your guest operating system recognizes the new virtual hardware The specific steps may vary depending on the configuration of the virtual machine 1 A Power on the virtual machine and let it update the CMOS Plug and Play detects an Intel 82371 EB Power Management controller Select Automatic search and click Next Windows finds and installs the driver automatically Plug and Play detects an Intel 82443 BX Pentium II Processor to PCI bridge Select Automatic search and click Next Windows finds and installs the driver automatically Restart the guest operating system Plug and Play detects an Intel 82371 AB EB PCI Bus Master IDE controller Select Automatic search and click Next Windows finds and install the driver automatically Install the new version of VMware Tools For details see Installing VMware Tools on page 77 Shut down Windows and power off the virtual machine Choose File gt Upgrade Virtual Hardware A dialog box cautions you that the operation is irreversible and recommends that you back up the virtual disks before proceeding If you are ready to proceed click Yes 10 A dialog box displays a message describing what is about to happen Click OK to continue 11 Power on the virtual machine 12 Windows det
309. rtual adapter Ethernet switch VMnet0 Virtual bridge DEERE HEHEHEEED Virtual Virtual Ethernet Ethernet adapter adapter Virtual a ee Ethernet n oo adapter ORR EEEE BORE Virtual machine 1 Virtual Firewall Ethernet switch VMnet2 Virtual machine 2 Web server Virtual Virtual Ethernet Ethernet adapter adapter Virtual Ethernet Virtual adapter Ethernet switch n VMnet3 ma on EE Oe oe Oe Oe Virtual machine 3 Firewall Virtual machine 4 Internal PC In this custom configuration a Web server connects through a firewall to an external network An administrator s computer can connect to the Web server through a second firewall 192 Fico To set up this configuration you must create four virtual machines and use the Virtual Machine Control Panel to adjust the settings for their virtual Ethernet adapters You also need to install the appropriate guest operating systems and application software in each virtual machine and make the appropriate networking settings in each virtual machine 1 Set up four virtual machines using the New Virtual Machine Wizard Create the first virtual machine with bridged networking so it can connect to an external network using the host computer s Ethernet adapter Create the other three virtual machines without networking You will set up their virtual Ethernet adapters in later steps Start VMware Workstation and
310. rtual Machine Memory Size 292 Reserved Memory 293 Using More Than 1GB of Memory on a Linux Host 294 Improving Performance for Guest Operating Systems 296 Windows 95 and Windows 98 Guest Operating System Performance Tips 296 Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Guest Operating System Performance Tips 298 Linux Guest Operating System Performance Tips 300 Special Purpose Configuration Options 301 Locking Out Interface Features 303 Removing a Forgotten Password 303 Restricting the User Interface 305 Automatically Returning to a Snapshot with a Restricted User Interface __ 306 Glossary 309 Index 315 10 www vmware comM 1 Introduction and System Requirements CHAPTER 1 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Welcome to VMware Workstation This section contains the following What s New in Version 4 on page 14 Host System Requirements on page 16 Virtual Machine Specifications on page 19 Supported Guest Operating Systems on page 22 Technical Support Resources on page 24 Thank you for choosing VMware Workstation the powerful virtual machine software that runs multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC If you re new to VMware Workstation this is the place to start If you re a veteran user of VMware products take a few minutes to see what s new in version 4 and check out the notes on upgrading your installation The first chapters of this manual through Running VMware Workstation on page
311. rtual machine with additional devices or specific configuration options If you select Typical the wizard prompts you to specify or accept defaults for The guest operating system The virtual machine name and the location of the virtual machine s files 67 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual e The network connection type If you select Custom you also can specify how to set up your disk create a new virtual disk use an existing virtual disk or use a physical disk and specify the settings needed for the type of disk you select Select Custom if you want to e Make a virtual disk larger or smaller than 4GB e Store your virtual disk s files in a particular location e Use an IDE virtual disk for a guest operating system that would otherwise have a SCSI virtual disk created by default e Allocate all the space for a virtual disk at the time you create it e Choose whether to split a virtual disk into 2GB files e Use a physical disk rather than a virtual disk for expert users e Set memory options that are different from the defaults 7 Select a guest operating system New Virtual Machine Wizard Select a Guest Operating System Sm Which operating system will be installed on this virtual machine Sy Guest operating system Windows 2000 Professional Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Linux FreeBSD NetWare 5 NetWare 6 ther This screen asks which operating sys
312. s lpq command lpstat o p 234 www vmware com CHAPTER 9 Networking lprm command cancel p j system comment System share path valid users username public no browsable yes writable yes printable no Ne Ne Ne Ne Ne Ne Ne N Adding User Names and Passwords to the VMware Workstation Samba Password File You must be sure the Samba password file includes entries for all users of the virtual machine who will access the host s file system The user names and passwords in the Samba password file must be the same as those used for logging on to the guest Operating system You may add user names and passwords to the VMware Workstation Samba password file at any time from a terminal window on your Linux host computer 1 Log on to the root account su 2 Run the VMware Workstation Samba password command vmware smbpasswd vmnetl a lt username gt lt username gt is the user name you want to add Follow the instructions on the screen Note vmware smbpasswd is based on the standard Samba password program If you are familiar with the options used in smbpasswd you may use any of them in vmware smbpasswd 3 Log out of the root account exit You may receive an error message that says Unknown virtual interface vmnet1 This indicates your machine is not using the VMware Workstation Samba server If your installation of VMware Workstation does not include the VMware Workstation
313. s being used by the guest operating system in polled mode as opposed to interrupt mode Polled mode causes the virtual machine to consume a disproportionate share of CPU time This makes the host and other guests run sluggishly Virtual Machine Control Panel Hardware Options Device status Device Summary z Connected Memory 224 MB S Hard Disk 1 IDE 0 0 co Rom 1 IDE 1 0 Auto detect Connection EA Floppy 1 Using drive 4 Use physical serial port Enc 1 Bridged OM USB Controller Present audio Default adapter Use output file serial 1 Using pipe pipe co Connect at power on Use named pipe Apipe com_1 This end is the server v The other end is a virtual me Y 170 mode Yield CPU on poll Allow the guest operating system to use this serial port in polled mode as opposed to interrupt mode C Update the snapshot after changing settings To restore performance for applications on the host in the Virtual Machine Control Panel select the virtual serial port and check the Yield CPU on poll check box This configuration option forces the affected virtual machine to yield processor time if the only task it is trying to do is poll the virtual serial port Changing the Input Speed of the Serial Connection To use the second option power off the virtual machine and close the VMware Workstation window then use a text editor to add the
314. s created under VMware Workstation 3 or another VMware product and uses disks in nonpersistent mode you should consider changing the location of the redo log file since by default it is placed in your temp directory to which other users may not have access redo log files for disks in undoable mode are placed in the same directory as the virtual machine s configuration file To change the location of the redo log file take the following steps A With the virtual machine powered off open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Choose Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings B Click the Options tab C Click Browse and select a directory that is shared with other users D Click OK to save the change and close the Virtual Machine Control Panel Note VMware Workstation 3 virtual machines with disks in nonpersistent mode perform better when the redo log files for those disks are located in the system s temp directory www vmMware comM Using Disks CHAPTER 7 129 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Using Disks in a Virtual Machine The following sections provide information on configuring your virtual machine s hard disk storage so it best meets your needs Configuring Hard Disk Storage in a Virtual Machine on page 131 Disk Types Virtual and Physical on page 131 e File Locations on page 133 Updating Filenames for Virtual Disks Created with Earlier VMware Products on page 135 Defragmenting and Shrinking Virtual Disks on pag
315. sabling Adding and Removing Host Virtual Adapters on page 200 Advanced Networking Topics on page 203 e Selecting IP Addresses on a Host Only Network or NAT Configuration on page 203 1 84 www vmMware com CHAPTER 9 Networking e Avoiding IP Packet Leakage in a Host Only Network on page 205 e Maintaining and Changing the MAC Address of a Virtual Machine on page 207 e Controlling Routing Information for a Host Only Network on a Linux Host on page 209 e Other Potential Issues with Host Only Networking on a Linux Host on page 209 e Setting Up a Second Bridged Network Interface on a Linux Host on page 210 e Setting Up Two Separate Host Only Networks on page 211 Routing between Two Host Only Networks on page 215 Using Virtual Ethernet Adapters in Promiscuous Mode on a Linux Host on page 219 Understanding NAT on page 220 Using NAT on page 220 The Host Computer and the NAT Network on page 220 DHCP on the NAT Network on page 221 DNS on the NAT Network on page 221 External Access from the NAT Network on page 221 e Advanced NAT Configuration on page 222 e Considerations for Using NAT on page 226 Using NAT with NetLogon on page 227 e Sample Linux vmnetnat conf File on page 228 Using Samba on a Linux Host on page 231 185 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Components of the Virtual Network Virtual switch Like a physical switch a virtual switch lets you connect other networking components together Virtual switches are creat
316. shots You can take a snapshot of your virtual machine s state a point in time copy of the running system state saved to disk You can revert to that snapshot at any time making it easier to do repetitive testing and debugging You can also configure a virtual machine so it reverts to the snapshot each time you power it off See Taking and Reverting to a Snapshot on page 108 for details Drag and Drop You can drag and drop files and folders in both directions between Windows hosts and Windows guests See Using Drag and Drop on page 107 for details Shared Folders Shared folders give you an easy way to share files between the host and one or more guests See Using Shared Folders on page 104 for details Full Debug Support Programmers now have the full functionality of native program debugging within a virtual machine with support for both user and kernel level debuggers For more information on configuring virtual machines for a debugging session see Examples Debugging over a Virtual Serial Port on page 263 Improved Sound and Video Listen to music in a virtual machine with the high fidelity provided by the new sound device which emulates the popular Creative Labs Sound Blaster AudioPCl Get upgraded high performance graphics that let you display streaming video without skipping a beat 1 4 www vmMware com CHAPTER 1 Introduction and System Requirements New Operating System Support Get the freedom to choose the operatin
317. snapshot and want to disable the snapshot feature first go to the VMware Workstation menu and choose Snapshot gt Remove 177 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Snapshot Then return to the Virtual Machine Control Panel and select Disable snapshots To lock the snapshot so no new snapshot can be taken select Lock this snapshot Updating the Snapshot When You Change Virtual Machine Settings When you change settings in the Virtual Machine Control Panel you may want to update the snapshot so these new settings are in effect when you revert to the Snapshot The most convenient way to do so is to select Update the snapshot after changing settings at the bottom of the Virtual Machine Control Panel If this option is selected when you click OK in the Virtual Machine Control Panel VMware Workstation updates the snapshot of the virtual machine To avoid updating the snapshot click Cancel or deselect Update the snapshot after changing settings before you click OK Removing the Snapshot You can remove the snapshot any time the virtual machine is powered off Removing the snapshot does not destroy any data in the virtual machine You keep all changes made since you took the snapshot then permanently accumulate additional changes as you run the virtual machine You cannot revert to a previous state because the snapshot no longer exists To remove the snapshot shut down and power off the virtual machine Then on the VMware Workstation m
318. software w MSN Explorer gs My Computer Windows Media Player ie Control Panel fa Printers and Faxes 3 Windows Messenger Help and Support Tour Windows XP Q Windows Movie Maker All Programs gt Host and Guest e The physical computer on which you install the VMware Workstation software is called the host Run the operating systems you need all at once computer and its operating system is VMware Workstation is ideal for called the host operating system Software development testing and deployment The operating system Application compatibility and operating system migration running inside a virtual machine is called a Training and sales demonstrations guest operating Software help desk and technical support system For definitions of these and other special terms see the glossary at the end of this manual 13 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual What s New in Version 4 Whether you re a long time power user of VMware Workstation or a beginning user who is just learning what you can do with virtual machines the new features in VMware Workstation 4 extend its capabilities and make it easier to use This release features Improved core support for x86 architecture PCs Improved multimedia support UI and usability improvements Improved networking infrastructure New in Version 4 Here are some highlights of key features to explore in VMware Workstation 4 Snap
319. splays information explaining why you cannot shrink your virtual disks Note VMware recommends you defragment your host computer s hard drive after 10 shrink operations on a virtual disk For best disk performance you can take the following three actions in the order listed 1 Run a disk defragmentation utility inside the virtual machine 2 Use the VMware Workstation defragmentation tool Go to Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings click the listing for the virtual disk you want to defragment then click Defragment 3 Runa disk defragmentation utility on the host computer 137 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Adding Drives to a Virtual Machine VMware Workstation virtual machines can use up to four IDE devices and up to seven SCSI devices Any of these devices can be a virtual hard disk or DVD or CD ROM drive A virtual machine can read data from a DVD ROM disc VMware Workstation does not Support playing DVD movies in a virtual machine Many other SCSI devices can be connected to a virtual machine using the host operating system s generic SCSI driver For details on connecting these devices see Connecting to a Generic SCSI Device on page 279 Adding Virtual Disks to a Virtual Machine Virtual disks are stored as files on the host computer or on a network file server so it does not matter whether the disk that holds the files is IDE or SCSI A virtual IDE drive can be stored on an IDE drive or on a SCSI drive So can a virtua
320. ss 303 305 using 109 Virtual Network Editor 312 Virtual switch 186 Virus Buster See Trend Micro Virus Buster vmnet1 conf 210 VMnet8 220 VMware Tools configuring 86 defined 312 for FreeBSD guests 83 for Linux guests 81 for NetWare guests 85 for Windows guests 77 installing 77 starting 98 vmware log 65 vmware config p 36 V scan code defined 266 table of codes 269 WwW Window size 101 Windows installing on Windows host 29 Supported guest operating systems 22 uninstalling on Windows host 33 upgrading on Windows host 44 VMware Tools for 77 Windows 95 sound driver 245 SVGA driver in a raw disk configura tion 158 upgrading guest 60 Windows 98 sound driver 245 SVGA driver in a raw disk configura tion 159 upgrading guest 59 Windows Me upgrading guest 58 Windows NT SCSI driver for guest 279 sound driver 245 Windows Server 2003 SCSI driver for guest 162 279 Windows XP installing guest operating system 75 SCSI driver for guest 162 279 Wizard add new hardware 109 new virtual machine 67 133 311 shared folder 105 Workspaces switching in Linux guest 111 X X server and keyboard mapping 266 configuring 243 XF86Config 243 XFree86 and keyboard mapping 266 configuring 243 Z Zip drives on a parallel port 253 325 326 Twi
321. ssional virtual machine is C Documents and Settings lt username gt My Documents My Virtual Machines Windows XP Professional On Windows NT the default folderisC WINNT Profiles lt username gt Personal My Virtual Machines Windows XP Professional Linux hosts The default location for this Windows XP Professional virtual machine is lt homedir gt vmware winXPPro where lt homedir gt is the home directory of the user who is currently logged on Virtual machine performance may be slower if your virtual hard disk is on a network drive For best performance be sure the virtual machine s folder is on a local drive However if other users need to access this virtual machine you should consider placing the virtual machine files in a location that is accessible to them For more information see Sharing Virtual Machines with Other Users on page 128 9 Configure the networking capabilities of the virtual machine 69 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual New Virtual Machine Wizard Network Type What type of network do you want to add wy Network connection Use bridged networking Give the guest operating system direct access to an external Ethemet network The guest must have its own IP address on the external network Use network address translation NAT Give the guest operating system access to the host computer s dial up or external Ethernet network connection using the host s IP address Use host only networking
322. st Operating systems Windows Server 2003 Windows XP Windows 2000 Windows NT 4 0 Linux with a kernel version of 2 4 or higher To set up one or more shared folders for a virtual machine be sure the virtual machine is open in Workstation and click its tab to make it the active virtual machine Go to Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings gt Options and click Shared folders 1 04 www vmware comM CHAPTER 5 Running VMware Workstation Virtual Machine Control Panel Hardware Options Settings Summary Shared folders Gj General Windows xP Professional Name Share Status D Power Shared files C Documents and Set Enabled f Shared Folders Enabled amp Snapshot Keep changes amp Guest isolation a Advanced Normal Normal C Disable all shares Add C Update the snapshot after changing settings You can add one or more directories to the list Those directories may be on the host computer or they may be network directories accessible from the host computer In a Windows virtual machine shared folders appear in My Network Places Network Neighborhood in a Windows NT virtual machine under VMware Shared Folders For example if you specify the name Test files for one of your shared folders you can navigate to it by opening My Network Places gt VMware Shared Folders gt host gt Shared Folders gt Test files You can also go directly to the folder using the UNC path host
323. st Operating Systems 245 Connecting Devices 247 Using Parallel Ports 250 Parallel Ports 250 Installation in Guest Operating Systems 250 Configuring a Parallel Port on a Linux Host 251 Special Notes for the lomega Zip Drive 253 Using Serial Ports 254 Using a Serial Port on the Host Computer 254 Using a File on the Host Computer 255 Connecting an Application on the Host to a Virtual Machine 256 Connecting Two Virtual Machines 258 Special Configuration Options for Advanced Users 262 Examples Debugging over a Virtual Serial Port 263 Keyboard Mapping on a Linux Host 266 Quick Answers 266 The Longer Story 266 V Scan Code Table 269 Using USB Devices in a Virtual Machine 274 Notes on USB Support in Version 4 274 Enabling and Disabling the USB Controller 274 Connecting USB Devices 274 Using USB with a Windows Host 275 Replacing USB 2 0 Drivers on a Windows 2000 Host 275 Using USB with a Linux Host 276 Who Has Control over a USB Device 216 Disconnecting USB Devices from a Virtual Machine 277 Human Interface Devices 278 Connecting to a Generic SCSI Device 279 Generic SCSI on a Windows Host Operating System 279 Generic SCSI on a Linux Host Operating System 281 Performance Tuning 283 Configuring and Maintaining the Host Computer 285 Configuring VMware Workstation 286 General VMware Workstation Options 286 VMware Workstation on a Windows Host 289 VMware Workstation on a Linux Host 290 www ymware com Memory Usage Notes 292 Vi
324. station 4 User s Manual 254 Using Serial Ports A VMware Workstation virtual machine can use up to four virtual serial ports The virtual serial ports can be configured in several ways You can connect a virtual serial port to a physical serial port on the host computer You can connect a virtual serial port to a file on the host computer You can make a direct connection between two virtual machines or between a virtual machine and an application running on the host computer You can also select whether to connect the virtual serial port when you power on the virtual machine Using a Serial Port on the Host Computer You can set up the virtual serial port in a virtual machine to use a physical serial port on the host computer This is useful for example if you want to use an external modem or a hand held device in your virtual machine To install a virtual serial port that connects to a physical serial port on the host computer take the following steps 1 Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings 2 Click Add to start the Add Hardware Wizard 3 Select Serial Port then click Next Add Hardware Wizard Serial Port Type What media should this virtual serial port access Serial port Use physical serial port on the host Output to file Output to named pipe 4 Select Use physical serial port on the host then click Next www vmware comM CHAPTER 11 Connecting Devices
325. sted parallel port modules is running use this command insmod k parport_pc This command inserts the three modules needed for a parallel port If you continue to see problems it is possible that the 1p module is running If it is the virtual machine cannot use the parallel port correctly To remove the 1p module run this command as the root user rmmod lp You should also ensure that the line referring to the 1p module in the etc modules conf or etc conf modules file is removed or commented out by inserting a hash character at the beginning of the line The name of the configuration file depends on the Linux distribution you are using When you reboot 251 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual the host after removing this line the configuration file no longer starts the 1p module To ensure that the proper modules for the parallel port are loaded at boot time add this line to the etc modules conf or etc conf modules file alias parport_lowlevel parport_jpc Parallel Ports and Linux 2 4 x Kernels Be sure that PC Style Hardware CONFIG_PARPORT_PC is loaded as a module as mentioned at the beginning of Using Parallel Ports on page 250 If you are using a 2 4 x kernel the modules that provide parallel port functionality are parport parport_pc and ppdev To see if these modules are installed and running on your system run the 1smod command as the root user These three modules should be included in the listing of running
326. system only read access to the file so they cannot manually modify the configuration 3 For the convenience of users create a shortcut to the configuration file on the desktop and give it an appropriate name Note Although the restricted user interface provides no access to menu and toolbar controls for the snapshot you may choose to give the user limited snapshot control If you set up a snapshot for the restricted virtual machine and set the power off option to Ask me the user sees the standard dialog box when shutting down a virtual 305 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual machine and has the opportunity to choose Just power off Take snapshot or Revert to snapshot Automatically Returning to a Snapshot with a Restricted User Interface You can combine a restricted user interface with a snapshot to ensure that users virtual machines always start in the same state Typically users running a virtual machine with a restricted user interface can power it on and off only and the virtual machine boots when powered on When the virtual machine has a snapshot set and is configured to return to that snapshot when powered off the user can only start and power off the virtual machine The virtual machine always starts from the snapshot Since you can restrict the user interface only on Windows hosts this combination works only with virtual machines running on Windows hosts To set up a virtual machine with restricted user interface
327. t Power Snapshot View Window Help E ii D e H Snapshot fARevert oa fe Toolbar when virtual machine is powered on as seen on a Linux host Mandrake Linux 8 1 VMware Workstation File Edit Power Snapshot view Windows Help a0 DG BP sas revert FE Toolbar when virtual machine is suspended as seen on a Windows host www vmware com CHAPTER 5 Running VMware Workstation bg VMware Workstation File Edit Power Snapshot View Window Help a aa D A EpShnapshot fARever Ale Toolbar when virtual machine is suspended as seen on a Linux host There are separate Power Off and Power On buttons When you suspend a virtual machine the Power On button becomes a Resume button Windows XP Professional Mandrake Linux 8 1 f UEC IE TTA Tabs make it easy to switch among active virtual machines as seen on a Windows host When a virtual machine is active its virtual machine name is displayed in a tab at the top of the virtual machine window To switch from one active virtual machine to another click the tab of the virtual machine you want to see It s like a soft KVM switch You can use this feature in the windowed view and also in the quick switch view If you want to view more than one virtual machine at the same time you can open multiple Workstation windows and launch one or more virtual machines in each Favorites X Windows xF c Windows XP Professional F Expand All Locate Windo
328. t guestOSname gt On Windows NT the default folder is C WINNT Profiles lt username gt Personal My Virtual Machines lt guestOSname gt 3 Click the Power On button to start the virtual machine 97 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 4 f VMware Tools is not running in the virtual machine click anywhere inside the virtual machine window to give the virtual machine control of your mouse and keyboard 5 lf you need to log on type your name and password just as you would on a physical computer Removing a Name from the Favorites List You can remove the name of a virtual machine from the Favorites list at any time Removing the name from the list does not affect the virtual machine s files You can add the virtual machine to the list again at any time To remove a name from the Favorites list take these steps 1 Click a name in the list to select it 2 Choose File gt Remove lt virtual machine name gt from Favorites Starting a Virtual Machine on a Linux Host 1 Open a terminal window type vmware amp and press Enter 2 Select the name of the virtual machine you want to use in the Favorites list at the left of the Workstation window If the virtual machine you want to use is not shown in the Favorites list go to File gt Open and browse to the configuration file vmx or cfg file for the virtual machine you want to use To add that virtual machine to the Favorites list so you can open it easily the next ti
329. t in use by the host Windows NT host Use the Disk Administrator Start gt Programs gt Administrative Tools First highlight the partition that contains the guest operating system then choose Tools gt Assign Drive Letter In the dialog box 168 nn CHAPTER 7 Using Disks choose Do not assign a drive letter for the partition and click OK The unmapping happens immediately Windows Server 2003 Windows XP or Windows 2000 host Use Disk Management Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt Administrative Tools gt Computer Management gt Storage gt Disk Management Select the partition you want to unmap then choose Action gt All Tasks gt Change Drive Letter and Path Click the Remove button Use the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings if you want to change any configuration options from the wizard defaults for example to change the amount of memory allocated to the guest operating system At this point you are ready to begin installing the guest operating system onto the raw disk you configured for the virtual machine For more details read the installation notes for various guest operating systems in the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide available from the VMware Web site or from the Help menu Configuring a Linux Host iF Identify the raw partition on which the guest operating system will be installed Check the guest operating system documentation regarding th
330. t manager is installed on the computer system the boot manager runs inside the virtual machine and presents you with the choice of guest operating systems to run You must manually choose the guest operating system that this configuration was intended to run Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Dynamic Disks If your host is running Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 and is using dynamic disks see Do Not Use Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Dynamic Disks as Raw Disks on page 161 Using the LILO Boot Loader If you are using the LILO boot loader and try to boot a virtual machine from an existing raw partition youmayseeL 01 01 01 01 01 01 instead ofa LILO prompt This can happen regardless of the host operating system As part of booting a physical PC or a virtual machine the BIOS passes control to code located in the master boot record MBR of the boot device LILO begins running from the MBR and in order to finish running correctly it needs access to the native Linux partition where the rest of LILO is located usually the partition with the boot directory If LILO can t access the rest of itself an error message like the one above appears To avoid the problem follow the configuration steps below and be sure to select the native Linux partition where the rest of LILO is located The next time the virtual machine tries to boot the LILO code in the MBR should be able to access the rest of LI
331. t operating system and the application software used with it if you use a default setup the actual disk space needs are approximately the same as those for installing and running the guest operating system and applications on a physical computer IDE or SCSI hard drives CD ROM and DVD ROM drives supported Guest operating systems can reside on physical disk partitions or in virtual disk files Local Area Networking Optional Any Ethernet controller supported by the host operating system Non Ethernet networks supported using built in network address translation NAT or using a combination of host only networking plus routing software on the host operating system Windows Host Operating Systems e Windows Server 2003 Web Edition Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 1 listed versions also supported with no service pack Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 1 2 or 3 Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 1 2 or 3 Windows 2000 Advanced Server Service Pack 1 2 or 3 listed versions also supported with no service pack Windows NT Workstation 4 0 Service Pack 6a Windows NT Server 4 0 Service Pack 6a Windows NT 4 0 Terminal Server Edition Service Pack 6 Caution Do not install VMware Workstation on a Windows NT 4 0 Server system that is configured as a primary or backup domain controller Internet Explorer 4 0 or higher requir
332. t the first adapter From the Connection Type drop down list on the right select Host only If the list of devices indicates the adapter is not installed click Install Select the second adapter then from the Connection Type drop down list on the right select Custom In the VMnet field tyoe dev vmnet2 If the list of devices indicates the adapter is not installed click Install 217 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Now you need to configure the networking components on the host and in the virtual machines The recommended approach uses static IP addresses for all the virtual machines 1 Stop the VMnet DHCP server service Windows host Choose Edit gt Virtual Network Settings gt DHCP and click Stop service Linux host Stop the vmnet dhecpd service killall TERM vmnet dhcpd 2 Install guest operating systems in each of the virtual machines 3 Install the router software on the host computer or in the third virtual machine depending on the approach you are using 4 Configure networking in the first two virtual machines to use addresses on the appropriate host only network On Windows hosts you can open a command prompt and run ipconfig all to see what IP addresses each host only network is using On Linux hosts you can open a terminal and run ifconfig to see what IP addresses each host only network is using 5 lf you are running the router on the host computer assign default router addresses based
333. tart the virtual machine 17 Windows detects the COM ports and installs them properly Red Hat Linux Guest 1 Power on the virtual machine and let it update the CMOS 2 When Kudzu appears follow the instructions to detect new hardware and install the proper drivers 3 Shut down Linux and power off the virtual machine 4 Choose File gt Upgrade Virtual Hardware 5 Adialog box cautions you that the operation is irreversible and recommends that you back up the virtual disks before proceeding If you are ready to proceed click Yes 56 www vmMware com 8 9 CHAPTER 3 Upgrading VMware Workstation A dialog box displays a message describing what is about to happen Click OK to continue Power on the virtual machine When Kudzu runs it detects an Ensonig ES1371 AudioPCI 97 sound device Click Configure Mandrake Linux Guest 1 2 Power on the virtual machine and let it update the CMOS When Kudzu appears follow the instructions to detect new hardware and install the proper drivers Shut down Linux and power off the virtual machine Choose File gt Upgrade Virtual Hardware A dialog box cautions you that the operation is irreversible and recommends that you back up the virtual disks before proceeding If you are ready to proceed click Yes A dialog box displays a message describing what is about to happen Click OK to continue Power on the virtual machine When Kudzu runs it detects an Ensonig ES1371
334. tem to install in the virtual machine The New Virtual Machine Wizard uses this information to select appropriate default values such as the amount of memory needed The wizard also uses this information when naming associated virtual machine files If the operating system you are using is not listed select Other The remaining steps assume you plan to install a Windows XP Professional guest operating system You can find detailed installation notes for this and other guest operating systems in the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide available from the VMware Web site or from the Help menu 8 Select a name and folder for the virtual machine 68 WWW VMware com CHAPTER 4 Creating a New Virtual Machine New Virtual Machine Wizard Name the Virtual Machine What name would you like to use for this virtual machine Virtual machine name Windows xP Professional Location C Documents and Settings UserMy Documents My Virtual Mac The name specified here is used if you add this virtual machine to the VMware Workstation Favorites list This name is also used as the name of the folder where the files associated with this virtual machine are stored Each virtual machine should have its own folder All associated files such as the configuration file and the disk file are placed in this folder Windows hosts On Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 the default folder for this Windows XP Profe
335. the host machine See also Guest operating system Network address translation NAT Atype of network connection that allows you to connect your virtual machines to an external network when you have only one IP network address and that address is used by the host computer If you use NAT your virtual machine does not have its own IP address on the external network Instead a separate private network is set up on the host computer Your virtual machine gets an address on that network from the VMware virtual DHCP server The VMware NAT device passes network data between one or more virtual machines and the external network It identifies incoming data packets intended for each virtual machine and sends them to the correct destination New Virtual Machine Wizard A point and click interface for convenient easy creation of a virtual machine configuration To launch it choose File gt New gt New Virtual Machine It prompts you for information suggesting default values in most cases It creates files that define the virtual machine including a virtual machine configuration file and optionally a virtual disk or raw disk file See also Virtual Machine Control Panel Quick switch mode A display mode in which the virtual machine s display fills most of the screen In this mode tabs at the top of the screen allow you to switch quickly from one running virtual machine to another See also Full screen mode Raw disk A hard disk i
336. ther computer start VMware Workstation 3 on the computer that currently has your disk 2 Open the configuration file for the virtual machine that uses the undoable mode disk you wish to move In the VMware Workstation window select File gt Open and choose the configuration file of the virtual machine with the disk you want to move 3 Open the Virtual Machine Control Panel 4 Examine the entry for your virtual disk to see whether it includes a full path to the first virtual disk file For example on a Windows host you might see a disk file listing like this My Documents My Virtual Machines Windows Me Windows Me vmdk Entries for SCSI disks are similar www vmware comM CHAPTER 6 Moving and Sharing Virtual Machines If your disk file information resembles the example above with a full path to the first disk file and you have not committed or discarded changes to the undoable disk the following rules apply You can move the disk to another computer of the same type Windows to Windows or Linux to Linux You must place the virtual machine s other files including vmx and REDO on Windows vmx or cf g and REDO on Linux in the same relative location on the new computer In other words if the virtual machine s files reside in My Documents My Virtual Machines Windows Me on the original host computer you must place them in that same location on the new host computer You cannot move the disk to a computer of
337. they are plugged into USB ports on the host www vmware com 278 CHAPTER 11 Connecting Devices Connecting to a Generic SCSI Device Generic SCSI lets a virtual machine run any SCSI device that is supported by the guest operating system in the virtual machine Generic SCSI gives the guest operating system direct access to SCSI devices connected to the host such as scanners and tape drives Generic SCSI on a Windows Host Operating System Using the SCSI Generic driver in Windows VMware Workstation allows your guest operating system to operate generic SCSI devices including scanners tape drives and other data storage devices in a virtual machine Device Support In theory generic SCSI is completely device independent but VMware has discovered it is sensitive to the guest operating system device class and specific SCSI hardware We encourage you to try any SCSI hardware you want to use and report problems to VMware technical support Note If you are using generic SCSI devices in a Windows 95 Windows 98 or Windows Me guest operating system and are experiencing problems with the devices download the latest Mylex BusLogic BT KT 958 compatible host bus adapter from www lsilogic com This driver overrides what Windows chooses as the best driver but it corrects known problems Preparing a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Guest Operating System to Use SCSI Devices To use SCSI devices in a Windows XP or Windows Server 20
338. ties dialog box 296 o omn CHAPTER 12 Performance Tuning 4 Under Settings check the box labeled DMA and accept any warning Windows displays 5 Restart Windows for the new settings to take effect Full Screen Mode Run your virtual machine in full screen mode Click the Full Screen button on the VMware Workstation toolbar Swap File Usage In your system ini file in the 386enh section add the following line ConservativeSwapFi1leUsage 1 Disconnect CD ROM and dev rtc Using the Edit gt Removable Devices menu disconnect your CD ROM drive if you do not need to use it If you are using a Linux host and have a Windows 95 guest also disconnect dev rtc Do not disconnect it in a Windows 98 guest Disconnecting these devices reduces CPU usage Note The time synchronization feature in VMware Tools does not rely on dev rtc Visual Effects Windows 98 has a number of visual effects designed to be attractive that place unnecessary demands on the graphics emulation in VMware Workstation Some users have seen performance improvements when they turn off these special effects To modify these settings right click on the desktop of your virtual machine then select Properties from the pop up menu Click the Effects tab and uncheck the Animate windows menus and lists check box Also if you have Show window contents while dragging checked try unchecking that check box 297 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Wind
339. tion works reliably Examples Debugging over a Virtual Serial Port You can use Debugging Tools for Windows WinDbg or Kernel Debugger KD to debug kernel code in a virtual machine over a virtual serial port You can download Debugging Tools for Windows from the Windows DDK Web site at www microsoft com whdc ddk debugging default mspx The following two examples illustrate how to use a virtual serial port to debug kernel code in a virtual machine With the debugging application on the VMware Workstation host Windows hosts only With the debugging application in another virtual machine on the same VMware Workstation host useful on a Linux host and can also be done on a Windows host Using either of these methods lets you debug kernel code on one system without the need for two physical computers a modem or serial cable Debugging an Application in a Virtual Machine from the Windows Host In this example you have kernel code to debug in a virtual machine called the target virtual machine and are running WinDbg or KD on your Windows host 263 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual To prepare the target virtual machine follow the steps for a Windows host in Connecting an Application on the Host to a Virtual Machine on page 256 Make sure you configure the virtual machine s virtual serial port as follows Select This end is the server Under I O Mode select the Yield CPU on poll check box as the kernel in the target virtua
340. to connect the device to your virtual machine then experience problems with the connection to the device take the following steps 1 Disconnect and reconnect the device You can either unplug it physically then plug it back in or use the Edit gt Removable Devices menu to disconnect it and reconnect it 2 If you see a dialog box warning that the device is in use disable it in the hotplug configuration files in the etc hotplug directory Disconnecting USB Devices from a Virtual Machine Before unplugging a USB device or using the Edit gt Removable Devices menu to disconnect it from a virtual machine be sure it is in a safe state You should follow the procedures the device manufacturer specifies for unplugging the device from a physical computer This is true whether you are physically unplugging it moving it from host to virtual machine moving it between virtual machines or moving it from virtual machine to host This is particularly important with data storage devices a Zip drive for example If you move a data storage device too soon after saving a file and the operating system has not actually written the data to the disk you can lose data 277 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Human Interface Devices USB human interface devices such as the keyboard and mouse are not handled though the virtual machine s USB controller Instead they appear in the virtual machine as a standard PS 2 keyboard and mouse even though
341. tomatically powers on the virtual machine when VMware Workstation starts This is equivalent to clicking the Power On button in the VMware Workstation toolbar X automatically powers on the virtual machine then switches the VMware Workstation window to full screen mode q closes the virtual machine s tab when the virtual machine powers off If no other virtual machine is open it also exits VMware Workstation This is particularly useful when the guest operating system is capable of powering off the virtual machine v displays the product name version and build number lt path_to_config gt lt config gt vmx or cfg launches a virtual machine using the specified configuration file X toolkit options can be passed as arguments although some of them most notably the size and title of the VMware Workstation window cannot be overridden Windows Host The switches described above for Linux can also be used on a Windows host The most convenient way to use the switches is to incorporate them into the command generated by a Windows shortcut Create the shortcut right click the shortcut then click Properties In the Target field add any switches you want to use after the vmware exe filename For example C Program Files VMware VMware Workstation Programs vmware exe X C Documents and Settings lt username gt My Documents My Virtual Machines Windows Me Windows Me vmx launches the Windows Me virtual machine specified powers
342. tual disk capacity File names for each file beyond the first will be automatically generated using the file name provided here as a basis If a SCSI virtual disk is created by default and you want to use a virtual IDE disk instead or if you want to specify which device node should be used by your SCSI or ID virtual disk click Advanced New Virtual Machine Wizard Specify Advanced Options What kind of virtual disk would you like to create Virtual device node scsi 0 0 IDE GO Mode J Independent Independent disks are not affected by snapshots Persistent Changes are immediately and permanently written to the disk Nonpersistent revert to the anges to this disk are discarded when you poweroff or gt tk 10 Ch napshot On the advanced settings screen you can also specify a disk mode This is useful in certain special purpose configurations in which you want to exclude disks from the snapshot For more information on the snapshot feature see Using the Snapshot on page 176 Normal disks are included in the snapshot In most cases this is the setting you want Independent disks are not included in the snapshot 72 www vmware comM CHAPTER 4 Creating a New Virtual Machine Caution The independent disk option should be used only by advanced users who need it for special purpose configurations You have the following options for an independent disk Persistent changes are im
343. tual machine to a network using the host computer s Ethernet adapter Bridged networking is set up automatically if you select Use bridged networking in the New Virtual Machine Wizard or if you select the Typical setup path This selection is available on a Linux host only if you enable the bridged networking option when you install VMware Workstation If your host computer is on an Ethernet network this is often the easiest way to give your virtual machine access to that network On a Windows host you can use bridged networking to connect to either a wired or a wireless network On a Linux host you can use bridged networking to connect to a wired network If you use bridged networking your virtual machine needs to have its own identity on the network For example on a TCP IP network the virtual machine needs its own IP address Your network administrator can tell you whether IP addresses are available for your virtual machine and what networking settings you should use in the guest operating system Generally your guest operating system may acquire an IP address 188 nn CHAPTER 9 Networking and other network details automatically from a DHCP server or you may need to set the IP address and other details manually in the guest operating system If you use bridged networking the virtual machine is a full participant in the network It has access to other machines on the network and can be contacted by other machines on the network as if
344. ual machine stores its operating system programs and data files on one or more hard disks Unlike a physical computer VMware Workstation gives you options for undoing changes to the virtual machine s hard disk The New Virtual Machine Wizard creates a virtual machine with one disk drive You can use the Virtual Machine Control Panel Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings to add more disk drives to your virtual machine to remove disk drives from your virtual machine or to change certain settings for the existing disk drives This section describes the choices you can make in setting up hard disk storage for your virtual machine Disk Types Virtual and Physical In the most common configurations VMware Workstation creates virtual hard disks which are made up of files that are typically stored on your host computer s hard disk In some circumstances you may need to give your virtual machine direct access to a physical hard drive on your host computer using the disk type also referred to as a raw disk Virtual Disk A virtual disk is a file or set of files that appears as a physical disk drive to a guest operating system The files can be on the host machine or on a remote computer When you configure a virtual machine with a virtual disk you can install a new operating system onto the virtual disk without repartitioning a physical disk or rebooting the host IDE virtual disks can be as large as 128GB SCSI virtual disks can be as large
345. ume operations check to be sure the host disk that holds the virtual machine s working directory and virtual disk files is not badly fragmented If it is fragmented you can improve performance by running a defragmentation utility to reduce fragmentation on that host disk 285 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Configuring VMware Workstation This section offers advice and information about factors that can affect the performance of VMware Workstation itself This section does not address performance of the guest operating system or the host operating system Note In addition to the VMware Workstation configuration options discussed below you should always install VMware Tools in any guest operating system for which a VMware Tools package exists Installing VMware Tools provides better video and mouse performance and also greatly improves the usability of the virtual machine For details see Installing VMware Tools on page 77 General VMware Workstation Options Guest Operating System Selection Make certain you select the correct guest operating system for each of your virtual machines To check the guest operating system setting choose Edit gt Virtual Machine Settings gt Options gt General VMware Workstation optimizes certain internal configurations on the basis of this selection For this reason it is important to set the guest operating correctly The optimizations can greatly aid the operating system they target but they
346. und adapter to work inside the Windows NT guest operating system finish the remaining steps in this section then refer to Configuring Sound on page 245 Confirm that your virtual devices specifically the network adapter are working properly Windows 95 and Windows 98 guests If any virtual device is missing you can detect it by running Control Panel gt Add New Hardware Install VMware Tools VMware Tools appears and runs in both hardware configurations but affects only the virtual machine Note The next time you reboot Windows natively using the Physical Machine hardware profile some virtual devices may appear in the device list You can disable or remove these virtual devices from the Physical Machine hardware profile in the same way that you removed physical devices from the virtual machine hardware profile in step 6 above Running a Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Virtual Machine from an Existing Multiple Boot Installation If you have installed Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 on a computer then try to run that same installation of the operating system as a VMware Workstation virtual machine running from a raw disk the virtual machine may fail with an error message reporting an inaccessible boot device 157 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual The problem occurs because the physical computer and the virtual machine require different IDE drivers The Windows plug and play feature
347. ur registry Do not remove the licenses 2 Reboot your computer 3 Install version 4 Note When you are upgrading with an upgrade serial number the installer checks for the presence of a version 3 license on the computer If it finds no version 3 license it prompts you to enter your version 3 serial number 4 Reboot your computer Removing Version 2 To uninstall version 2 use the VMware Workstation uninstaller 1 Launch the uninstaller Start gt Programs gt VMware gt VMware for Windows NT Uninstallation 2 Click Yes 3 Follow the on screen instructions You may safely keep your existing license in the Windows registry After you reboot follow the instructions in Installing VMware Workstation 4 on a Windows Host on page 29 44 www vmware comM CHAPTER 3 Upgrading VMware Workstation Removing Version 3 To uninstall version 3 use the VMware Workstation uninstaller L Launch the uninstaller Start gt Programs gt VMware gt VMware Workstation Uninstallation Click Yes Follow the on screen instructions You need to keep your existing license in the Windows registry After you reboot follow the instructions in Installing VMware Workstation 4 on a Windows Host on page 29 Upgrading on a Windows 2000 Host with Host Only Networking If you have set up host only networking for VMware Workstation 2 on a Windows 2000 host the upgrade process has five steps i oF Uninstall your host only adapter
348. used by VMware Workstation to identify and run a specific virtual machine Virtual Machine Control Panel A point and click control panel used to view and modify the settings of a virtual machine You can launch it from the Edit menu See also New Virtual Machine Wizard Virtual Network Editor A point and click editor used to view and modify the networking settings for the virtual networks created by VMware Workstation You can launch it from the Edit menu VMware Tools A suite of utilities and drivers that enhances the performance and functionality of your guest operating system Key features of VMware Tools include some or all of the following depending on your guest operating system an SVGA 312 Fico CHAPTER 14 Glossary driver a mouse driver the VMware Tools control panel and support for such features as shared folders drag and drop in Windows guests shrinking virtual disks time synchronization with the host VMware Tools scripts and connecting and disconnecting devices while the virtual machine is running 313 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 3 1 4 www vmware comM Index File extensions Jomp 110 cfg 65 dsk 65 135 Jog 65 Jong 110 REDO 65 Sav 66 Std 32 06 135 vmdk 32 47 49 65 67 119 121 124 133 135 msn 66 mss 32 66 135 vmx 65 A Access to raw disks 148 166 Adapter host virtual 186 in promiscuous mode on a Linux host 219 virtual Ethernet 195 Add devices to virtua
349. ve it answer Yes to the question The network vmnetl has been reserved for a host only network You may change it but it is highly recommended that you use it as a host only network Are you sure you want to modify it yes no no yes 6 When prompted about the type of virtual network select None and the virtual network will be removed What type of virtual network do you wish to set vmnet1 bridged hostonly nat none hostonly none 202 erate gimn CHAPTER 9 Networking Advanced Networking Topics Selecting IP Addresses on a Host Only Network or NAT Configuration A host only network uses a private virtual network The host and all virtual machines configured for host only networking are connected to the network through a virtual switch Typically all the parties on this private network use the TCP IP protocol suite although other communication protocols may be used A network address translation NAT configuration also sets up a private network which must be a TCP IP network The virtual machines configured for NAT are connected to that network through a virtual switch The host computer is also connected to the private network used for NAT via a host virtual adapter Each virtual machine and the host must be assigned addresses on the private network This is typically done using the DHCP server that comes with VMware Workstation Note that this server does not service virtual or physical machines residing on bridged netwo
350. ven to a virtual machine depends on a few practical considerations What kinds of applications will run in the virtual machine What other virtual machines will contend with this virtual machine for memory resources What applications will run on the host at the same time as the virtual machine Windows operating systems do not behave well when they run low on free memory For this reason users should not run virtual machines whose memory requirements exceed that of the host and other applications To help guard against virtual machines causing the host to thrash VMware Workstation enforces a limit on the total amount of memory that may be consumed by virtual machines The sum of the memories of all currently running virtual machines plus overhead for the VMware Workstation processes cannot exceed the amount of physical memory on the host minus some memory that must be kept available for the host Some memory must be kept available on the host to ensure the host is able to operate properly while virtual machines are running The amount of memory reserved for the host depends on the host and the size of the host s memory 292 rare gimn CHAPTER 12 Performance Tuning Reserved Memory The second configuration parameter that users can set is the amount of memory that VMware Workstation is allowed to reserve for all running virtual machines To set this parameter go to Edit gt Application Settings gt Memory This setting specifies a
351. vices 110 toolbar 305 USB devices 277 virtual machine from Favorites list 98 Rename virtual disk files 32 67 Repeatable resume See Resume Reserved memory 112 Restore suspended virtual machine 107 virtual machine to state in snapshot 176 Restrict access to interface features 303 access to Virtual Machine Control Panel 305 Restricted user interface 305 Resume defined 311 snapshot compared to repeatable resume 179 virtual machine 107 175 Return See Revert Revert to snapshot 176 321 322 routed 209 Routing between two host only networks 215 for a host only network on a Linux host 209 Run suspended virtual machine 107 175 S Samba already running on a Linux host 236 and file sharing on a Linux host 231 and printer sharing 232 configuring during Workstation installation 36 on both bridged and host only net works 236 password file 235 running two Samba servers 237 sample configuration file 232 233 237 Save state of virtual machine 107 108 175 176 Scan code 266 Screen colors 241 Screen modes full screen 99 quick switch 100 Screen shot capturing 110 SCSI adding a generic SCSI device 280 282 and dual boot configurations 161 avoiding concurrent access on a Linux host 281 connecting to generic SCSI device 279 devices in virtual machine 19 disk geometry 164 driver for Windows NT guest 279 driver for Windows Server 2003 guest 162 279 driver for Windows XP guest 162
352. vices to your virtual machine You can connect up to two USB devices at a time If the physical USB devices are connected to the host computer through a hub the virtual machine sees only the USB devices not the hub There is a menu item for each of the USB ports Move the mouse over one of these items to see a cascading menu of devices that are plugged into your host computer and available for use To connect a device to the virtual machine click its name If a device is already connected to that port click the name of a new device to release the first device and connect the new one To release a connected device click None on the cascading menu for the port to which it is connected If you physically plug a new device into the host computer and the autoconnect feature does not connect it to a virtual machine the device is initially connected to the host Its name is also added to the Edit gt Removable Devices menu so you can connect it to the virtual machine manually Using USB with a Windows Host Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 hosts When a particular USB device is connected to a virtual machine for the first time the host detects it as a new device named VMware USB Device and installs the appropriate VMware driver Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 hosts User confirmation is required in the Found New Hardware Wizard Select the default action Install the software automatically Once the software is install
353. w disk configuration files to guard access This provides boot managers access to configuration and other files they may need to boot the operating systems For example LILO needs to read boot ona Linux partition to boot a non Linux operating system that may be on another drive A Start the New Virtual Machine Wizard File gt New gt New Virtual Machine and select Custom 5 When you reach the Select a Disk step select Use a physical disk 6 Ifthe raw disk you plan to use has multiple partitions on it already be aware that certain operating systems DOS Windows 95 Windows 98 must be installed on the first primary partition Caution Corruption is possible if you allow the virtual machine to modify a partition that is simultaneously mounted under the Linux host operating system Since the virtual machine and guest operating system access an existing partition while the host continues to run Linux it is critical that the virtual machine not be allowed to modify any partition mounted by the host or in use by another virtual machine To safeguard against this problem be sure the partition you use for the virtual machine is not mounted under the Linux host 7 Atthis point you are ready to begin installing the guest operating system on the raw disk you configured for the virtual machine For more details read the installation notes for various guest operating systems in the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide availabl
354. ware Tools in a NetWare Guest Operating System You can configure certain virtual machine options such as time synchronization CPU idling and device configuration with VMware Tools in a NetWare virtual machine using the system console The VMware Tools command line program is called vmwtool To see the options associated with this command at the system console type vmwtool help Summary of VMware Tools Commands for a NetWare Guest Each command in the following table must be entered into the system console after the VMware Tools command vmwtool Use the following format vmwtool lt command gt help Displays a summary of VMware Tools commands and options in a NetWare guest partitonlist Displays a list of all disk partitions in the virtual disk and whether or not a partition can be shrunk shrink lt partition gt Shrinks the listed partitions If no partitions are specified then all partitions in the virtual disk are shrunk The status of the shrink process appears at the bottom of the system console 88 www vmware comM CHAPTER 4 Creating a New Virtual Machine devicelist Lists each removable device in the virtual machine its device ID and whether the device is enabled or disabled Removable devices include the virtual network adapter CD ROM and floppy drives disabledevice lt device name gt Disables the specified device or devices in the virtual machine If no device is specified then all removable devices in t
355. ware Wizard Select a Physical Disk Which local hard disk do you want this virtual machine to use Device PhysicalDrive0 Usage Use entire disk Use individual partitions 4 Choose the physical hard disk to use from the drop down list Select whether you want to use the entire disk or use only individual partitions on the disk Click Next Add Hardware Wizard Select Partitions Which partitions would you like to use for this virtual disk ey Partitions Device PhysicalDriveD Partition File System Capacity C Partition 0 HPFS NTFS 3 4GB C Partition 1 HPFS NTFS 3 4GB V Partition 2 HPFS NTFS 21 8GB 5 lf you selected Use individual partitions in the previous step select which partitions you want to use in the virtual machine If you selected Use entire disk this step does not appear Click Next 6 The partition on which you are installing the guest operating system should be unmapped in the host Caution Corruption is possible if you allow the virtual machine to modify a partition that is simultaneously mounted under Windows Since the virtual machine and guest operating system access a raw disk partition while the host continues to run Windows it is critical that you not allow the virtual machine to modify any partition mounted by the host or in use by another virtual machine To safeguard against this problem be sure the raw disk partition you use for the virtual machine is no
356. ws 95 and power off the virtual machine 23 Shut down your host operating system Linux Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 and reboot into Windows 95 24 Select the Physical Machine profile when prompted 25 Repeat steps 19 through 21 and uncheck Virtual Machine leaving Physical Machine checked Setting Up the SVGA Video Driver for Use with a Windows 98 Guest Operating System Booted from a Raw Disk This section explains how to configure the video driver in a Windows 98 raw disk installation using VMware Workstation The steps below assume you are using Windows 98 as one of the operating systems in a dual boot or multiple boot configuration Following these steps you create separate hardware profiles for your virtual machine and your physical machine For more details on hardware profiles see Setting Up Hardware Profiles in Virtual Machines on page 154 1 Boot Windows 98 natively not in a virtual machine 2 Right click the My Computer icon on the desktop then select Properties 3 Click the Hardware Profiles tab 4 Highlight the Original Configuration profile then click Copy 159 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 5 Name the profile Virtual Machine then click OK You may also want to rename the Original Configuration profile to Physical Machine 6 Click OK to close the System Properties dialog box 7 Shut down Windows 98 and reboot the system 8 Boot into your host operating syste
357. ws XP Professional New Virtual Machine Open New Folder Add virtual machines you use often to the Favorites list as seen on a Windows host Right click in the Favor ites pane to create a folder Drag and drop virtual machine names into folders to organize them The Favorites list gives you a convenient way to open frequently used virtual machines To add a virtual machine to the Favorites list open the virtual machine File gt Open then choose File gt Add lt virtual machine name gt to Favorites To remove an item from the list click it to highlight it then choose File gt Remove lt virtual machine name gt from Favorites Indicators on the icons for virtual machines in the Favorites list show whether a virtual machine is powered off powered on or suspended To toggle the display of the Favorites list on or off click the Favorites button on the toolbar 95 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Virtual Machine Control Panel Hardware Options Device Summary Disk file a B Memory 324 WB Windows XP Professional vmdk Hard Disk 1 IDE 0 0 CD ROM 1 IDE 1 0 Auto detect BEREM Floppy 1 Using drive A Current size 1 1GB System free 15 9GB nci Bridged Maximum size 4 0GB 2 USB Controller Present O audio Default adapter Disk information File Monolithic C Update the snapshot after changing settings Use the Virtual Machine Control Panel to add remove and modify virtua
358. x host 209 dhcpd 209 Dial up connection 207 Direct memory access See DMA Disable host virtual adapter 200 Snapshot menu functions 305 Disconnect removable devices 110 USB devices 277 Disk space required on host computer 17 Disk files 133 Disk modes compared to snapshot 179 Disks adding virtual disks 138 available in virtual machine 19 defragmenting 136 DMA and performance 296 dynamic 161 existing partition 310 file locations 133 plain 132 raw 132 311 renaming virtual disks 32 135 See also Virtual disk shrinking 99 136 virtual 131 312 virtual disk files 65 virtual disk size in new virtual machine 68 Display color depth 241 fitting virtual machine to window 101 fitting window to virtual machine 101 full screen 99 multiple monitor 100 resolution on a Linux host 243 switching virtual machines 100 DMA and disk performance 171 296 DNS 221 Drag and drop 107 310 Driver SCSI 279 sound 245 Drives See Disks dskrename exe 136 Dual boot and SCSI disks 161 configuring for use in virtual machine 146 148 Dual monitor display 100 DVD adding drive to virtual machine 142 Dynamic disk 161 Dynamic domain name service 210 E Enable host virtual adapter 200 Ethernet adapter in promiscuous mode on a Linux host 219 adding virtual adapter 195 virtual adapter 187 Existing disk using in a virtual machine 132 Expand virtual machine screen size 101 Extension virtual disk filename 32 F Favorites
359. y correctly If this happens immediately leave full screen mode by pressing Ctrl Alt then either disable the mode switching code in VMware Workstation or fix your XFree86 configuration and restart X However if the only problem is that the image is off center or is not quite the right size on the monitor you can usually correct it using the controls on your monitor Note that most modern monitors are capable of storing separate settings for each resolution so changing the settings for a new mode should not impair the settings for the host resolution 244 www vmware com CHAPTER 10 Video and Sound Configuring Sound VMware Workstation provides a sound device compatible with the Sound Blaster Ensoniq AudioPCl and supports sound in Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows Me Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Server 2003 and Linux guest operating systems The VMware Workstation sound device is enabled by default Sound support includes PCM pulse code modulation output and input For example you can play wav files MP3 audio and Real Media audio MIDI output from Windows guests is supported through the Windows software synthesizer MIDI input is not supported and no MIDI support is available for Linux guests Windows 2000 Windows XP and most recent Linux distributions automatically detect the sound device and install appropriate drivers for it Installing Sound Drivers in Windows 9x and Windows NT Guest Operating Systems Win
360. y networks as you want Then answer No 4 Complete the remaining steps in the wizard When it is finished it restarts all services used by VMware Workstation 5 Run ifconfig You should see at least four network interfaces eth0O lo vmnet1 and vmnet2 If the VMnet interfaces do not show up immediately wait for a minute then run the command again These four interfaces should have different IP address on separate subnets www vmMware comM CHAPTER 9 Networking Configuring the Virtual Machines Now you have two host only interfaces VMnet1 and VMnet2 You are ready to set up your virtual machines for one of the following configurations l The virtual machine is configured with one virtual Ethernet adapter and that virtual adapter is connected to the default host only interface VMnet 1 2 The virtual machine is configured with one virtual Ethernet adapter and that virtual adapter is connected to the newly created host only interface VMnet2 3 The virtual machine is configured with two virtual Ethernet adapters One virtual adapter is connected to the default host only interface VMnet1 and the other virtual adapter is connected to the newly created host only interface VMnet2 Configuration 1 Connect to the Default Host Only Interface k Create the virtual machine using the New Virtual Machine Wizard or use an existing virtual machine Launch VMware Workstation and open the virtual machine Edit the
361. y poorly and also limit the number of virtual machines that can be run Limits on the Number of Running Virtual Machines By default VMware Workstation limits the number of virtual machines that can run at once based on the amount of reserved memory This is done to prevent virtual machines from causing each other to perform poorly If you try to power on a virtual machine and there is not enough reserved memory available the virtual machine fails to power on You can change the memory check so VMware Workstation only displays a warning message rather than preventing the virtual machine from powering on To do so go to Edit gt Application Settings gt Memory and clear the Enable Memory Limits check box 293 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual The total amount of memory used by all virtual machines running on a single host may not exceed 1GB Using More Than 1GB of Memory on a Linux Host By default Linux kernels in the 2 2 x series support 1GB of physical memory If you want to use more memory in Linux you can take one of several approaches Upgrade to a 2 4 x series kernel that allows for more physical memory Recompile your kernel as a 2GB kernel using the CONFIG_2GB option Enable the CONFIG_BIGMEM option to map more physical memory This approach requires special steps described in detail in the Workarounds section below to work with VMware products The CONFIG_2GB option calls for recompiling your kernel as a 2GB ker
362. you must not move the virtual machine s configuration file Moving it to a different host computer or even moving it to a different location on the same host computer changes the MAC adaress You also need to be sure not to change certain settings in the virtual machine s configuration files If you never edit the configuration file by hand and do not remove the virtual Ethernet adapter these settings remain untouched If you do edit the configuration file by hand be sure not to remove or change the following options 207 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual ethernet n generatedAddress ethernet n addressType ethernet n generatedAddressOffset uuid location uuid bios ethernet n present In these options n is the number of the virtual Ethernet adapter for example etherneto Note To preserve a virtual Ethernet adapter s MAC address you also must be careful not to remove it If you remove the adapter then recreate it it may receive a different MAC address Manually Assigning a MAC Address If you want to guarantee that the same MAC address is assigned to a given virtual machine every time even if the virtual machine is moved or if you want to guarantee a unique MAC address for each virtual machine within a networked environment you can assign the address manually instead of allowing VMware Workstation to assign it automatically To assign the same unique MAC address to any virtual machine manually use a text
363. you can run separate sets of virtual machines on each of the monitors To use two monitors launch two instances of VMware Workstation Start one or more virtual machines in each VMware Workstation window then drag each VMware Workstation window to the monitor on which you want to use it For the largest possible screen display switch each of the windows to quick switch mode View gt Quick Switch To switch mouse and keyboard input from the virtual machine on the first screen to the virtual machine on the second screen move the mouse pointer from one to the other You do not need to take any special steps if VMware Tools is running in both guest operating systems and if you are using the default settings for grabbing input If you have changed the defaults you may need to press Ctrl Alt to release the mouse pointer from the first virtual machine move it to the second virtual machine then click in the second virtual machine so it will grab control of mouse and keyboard input Note Multiple monitor support is experimental in this release of VMware Workstation It does not work properly with some third party desktop management software or display drivers 100 nn on CHAPTER 5 Running VMware Workstation Note Ifyou switch to full screen mode VMware Workstation always uses the primary display To use multiple monitors you must use either the normal windowed mode or quick switch mode Fitting the VMware Workstation Window to the Virtua
364. your host computer you do not need to take any special steps If you are using a different browser or if your Netscape browser is in a different location add a symbolic link to it from usr bin ln s lt path to browser gt usr bin netscape Uninstalling VMware Workstation 4 on a Linux Host If you used the RPM installer to install VMware Workstation remove the software from your system by running rpm e VMwareWorkstation If you used the tar installer to install VMware Workstation remove the software from your system by running vmware uninstall pl 37 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual 38 Twi 3 Upgrading VMware Workstation CHAPTER 3 39 VMware Workstation 4 User s Manual Upgrading from VMware Workstation 2 and 3 The following sections describe how to upgrade VMware Workstation from version 2 and 3 to version 4 on your Linux or Windows host system and how to use existing virtual machines under VMware Workstation 4 Preparing for the Upgrade on page 41 Upgrading on a Windows Host on page 44 Upgrading on a Linux Host on page 46 Using Virtual Machines Created with Version 3 under Version 4 on page 47 Using Virtual Machines Created with Version 2 under Version 4 on page 58 www vmware comM 40 CHAPTER 3 Upgrading VMware Workstation Preparing for the Upgrade Before You Install VMware Workstation 4 There are a few steps you should take while your previous version of VMware Workstation is stil

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